Eating Organic During Pregnancy
Soy
Products made from organic whole soy beans can be a wonderfully nutritious food. Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the nation's soy crop is currently organic. And, to make matters worse, 87 percent of the conventionally grown soy in the United States is genetically modified. What's more, in recent years soy has been the domestic crop most contaminated with organophosphate pesticides.
Yet it's hard to avoid soy–it's found in virtually any processed food you eat these days. The only solution is to make sure the processed foods you purchase are organic by checking labels at the grocery store. That way you'll know that any soy you're eating wasn't genetically altered and wasn't grown with pesticides.
Meet our expert:
Dr. Alan Greene, author of Raising Baby Green, is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California San Francisco. In addition to being the founder of www.DrGreene.com, he is the Chief Medical Officer of A.D.A.M. He is the Chair of The Organic Center and on the Advisory Board of Healthy Child Healthy World. Dr. Greene is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University's Packard Children's Hospital.
