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Transcript: Going Organic at Timpones Market

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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.