HEALTH FOOD

Health food is a general term applied to all kinds of foods that are considered more healthful than the types of foods widely sold in supermarkets. For example, whole grains, dried beans, and corn oil are healt foods. A narrower classification of health food is natural food. This term is used to distinguish between types of the same food. Fresh fruit is natural food, but canned fruit, with sugars and other additictives, is not. The most precise term of all and the narrowest classification within health food is organic food, used to describe food that has been grown on a particular kind of farm. Fruits and vegetables that are grown in gardens treated only with organic fertilizers are organic foods. They are neither sprayed with poisonous insecticides nor refined after harvest.
In choosing the type of food you eat, you have basically two choices, inorganig or processed foods, and organicor unprocessed foods. A wise decision should include consideration af allegation that processed foods containing chemicals are proven to be toxic. It also states that the vitamin content is greatly reduced in proccessed foods.