Zen Living

Episode “Going organic at Timpones market”

 

Nicole Tomlinson: Synthetic chemicals, pesticides, hormones. Buzz words used to make us go organic, but are these words of any value or is it just a lot of hype trying to get us to spend more money? I mean after all living the organic lifestyle really can increase your budget. I am here today to find out exactly what and where we should go organic without busting our wallets.

Our guest today is Patrick Timpone of Timpones Market. Hi Patrick.

Patrick Timpone: Hello there how are you?

Nicole Tomlinson: Could you please tell me why should Americans go organic?

Patrick Timpone: Well, there is no chemicals or pesticides in our organic food. So its pesticides or other than that are the best foods to eat.

Nicole Tomlinson: Which of these three items would normally contain the most pesticides that I should start buying only organically?

Patrick Timpone: Bananas are traditionally sprayed very highly. Grapes are sprayed very highly. Strawberries.

Nicole Tomlinson: Now I eat bananas every day they are one of my favorite fruits. Tell me why it is so important that these are bought only organically.

Patrick Timpone: Well there is a lot of different things about bananas. You see right now they have these little specks of brown things in bananas.

Nicole Tomlinson: Those are the seeds right?

Patrick Timpone: Well that’s where seeds used to be, there all pretty neutered, or sterile, so there really not that good of a fruit to eat at all. Bananas because they have no life force or energy or chi in them.

Nicole Tomlinson: I can’t really afford to go organic all the way. So what would be another key staple, besides just the bananas and grapes and such, to incorporate into my grocery list?

Patrick Timpone: I think lettuce, lettuce and celery and those, the greens.

Nicole Tomlinson: What do you think is going to happen if Americans don’t really start to change the way that they eat and what they buy at their stores?

Patrick Timpone: Well I think what’s happening is already happening. America is the sickest country on the planet and we spend more on health care than any country in the world.

Nicole Tomlinson: Healthcare does get expensive.

Patrick Timpone: Well yeah because it doesn’t work because they are just going after the symptoms of all of these diseases, and so people are getting sick with high blood pressure and cholesterol and Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s and all these things when they are 60 and 70 years old because of pollutions and chemicals and plastics and environment and food.

Most people around the country that run the world don’t really get it. That we are what we eat. And they still don’t get it. We don’t know the true benefits of not having chemicals in our diet. All we do know is that the chemicals and the preservatives and all the other things do cause imbalances in the kidneys and the liver and in other areas that cause malfunctions of the body. The trick is to keep as clean as a diet as you possibly can.

Nicole Tomlinson: This is really delicious. Mmmm, that’s good, that’s really good. Ok Jennifer when I first got here I thought this was just decoration. But I am guessing that its not, what is its purpose?

Jennifer Pittman: This is wheat grass. Ok this is ocean grown wheat grass. People use wheat grass for their b vitamins, cleans your blood it is high in chlorophyll, but this is ocean grown so it has ninety two minerals in the soil because it is grown with a concentrate of ocean water.

Nicole Tomlinson: Alright we are ready for the shot.

Jennifer Pittman: Ok, here you go.

Nicole Tomlinson: I am a little nervous, ok so, bottoms up! Mmm, that taste a little bit like grass. Like I just chewed on my lawn, but there was a sweet after taste, so it wasn’t so bad. I was expecting it to be a lot worse.  I hope I have gave you a little bit more insight on the benefits of going organic, at least now you know a few key items so you can substitute a little bit here and a little bit there. It can be a little bit more expensive, but in the long run think of all the money you will be saving on doctor bills, perhaps even saving your life.

I would like to thank Patrick Timpone and Jennifer for her delicious smoothies and wheat grass. From al of us here at Zen Living I am Nicole Tomlinson it has been a pleasure to be here with you today and we will see you next time.