Healthy Living

More fruits and veggies needed for life and pregnancy

The health message of eating MORE fruits and vegetables doesn’t seem to be getting across. The Alliance for Food and Farming is looking at the reasons why.Professor Carl Keen with UC Davis says availability and cost are some of the reasons but the other question is, are consumers being scared away from fruits and vegetables from claims that they are riddled with pesticides? The Environmental Working Group’s so called dirty dozen fruits and vegetables never looks at the actual levels of pesticides nor the actual risk.