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Group Says Pennsylvanians Are What They Eat

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Monday, February 22, 2010   

PITTSBURGH - The saying "You are what you eat" is the title of a workshop happening in Pennsylvania this week. It is taking a closer look at the "stew" of chemicals in products Americans consume every day.

Dr. Patricia DeMarco, executive director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association, says the idea behind the workshop is to help people make healthier choices. She points to some of those label ingredients people can barely pronounce, for example.

"We don't always know about some of these additives or things that are used as preservatives or colorants or stabilizers. They may be things that aren't necessarily good for us."

DeMarco says Americans' disconnect with their food began when they began looking to canned and packaged foods to help get them out of the kitchen.

"They wanted things you didn't have to cook yourself right at dinner time or at lunch time, foods that you could take with you whenever you left, to eat on the way. Convenience became the focus."

DeMarco advises taking another look at something many more families used to have: their own vegetable garden.

"Nowadays, everybody buys their vegetables. We've lost that sort of commitment that you grow at least some of what you eat yourself."

DeMarco also says the notion that organic foods are more expensive could be put to rest if more people purchased them, thereby driving down prices. The transition to organic would be beneficial by replenishing the pesticide-heavy soils present on many farms, she adds, and it could provide jobs, since organic farming uses more manual labor and less machinery than traditional operations do.

The "We are What We Eat" Workshop begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Carnegie Science Museum, Pittsburgh.




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