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Why Should You Care About Pesticides?

There is growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can adversely affect people, especially during vulnerable periods of fetal development and childhood when exposures can have long lasting effects. Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible.

EWG is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food. For more information please visit www.ewg.org.

You go to Mom's for some good, old-fashioned home cooking. You sit up to the table, mouth watering, and she serves you a plate with a heaping pile of white sugar, bleached flour, a scoop of lard and a meatball Between a couple chunks of diced tomato. Yum, yum! Eat up!

Proportionally, that wouldn't be too far off what most Americans are eating nowadays, even in Mom's good home cooking.

Very often today, the discussion about what we eat and how it's affecting our health revolves around the massive portions we receive in our restaurant meals and the high-fat, high-sugar foods and snacks we consume that someone else prepares for us.

But research shows that even when we're actively feeding ourselves at home, most of us are not doing a very good job of it. We've gotten used to those cheap and gigantic restaurant servings, so we're using the super scoop at home more often. We're busier, so we're buying more quick-and-easy processed items and less fresh food. We're eating in front of the TV more, so we're cramming down more food unconsciously while we're distracted by our shows.

Environmental investigations have been their specialty at the Environmental Working Group since 1993.

Their team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and their own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions.

Their research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know. It shames and shakes up polluters and their lobbyists. It rattles politicians and shapes policy. It persuades bureaucracies to rethink science and strengthen regulation. It provides practical information you can use to protect your family and community.

And because their investigations and interactive websites tend to make news, you've probably heard about them. Even if you've never heard of the comp.

Which is fine. they'd rather you remember their work than their name.