Organic IS better, at least in this case.....

[treeguy64]

OK. When the whole cv19 panic hit, grocery stores sold out of various items, quickly. My go-to place had no organic oatmeal. The tubes I bought sold for, around, three dollars for eighteen ounces.

I decided that the everyday oatmeal would be fine. In truth, the only reason I bought organic was that I had read about different chemicals making it into non-organic oatmeal, so I figured, "What the heck......" I actually had my doubts that organic was actually better for me. I was wrong!

A day after starting non-organic, I developed heartburn, every morning, OTJ. I was baffled, as I never even thought about oatmeal being the culprit. Last week, after two weeks of taking baking soda, it hit me! What if nonorganic oatmeal was to blame?

My grocer still has no organic oatmeal, only the two dollar tubes of the stuff I was eating, lately. Time for Whole Foods! The organic oatmeal, there, is over six dollars, for a thirty-two ounce bag. Ok, I can afford it.

Well, I'm here to tell, organic did the trick: My heartburn disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, absolutely no lie!

This has given me pause to think: Should I be going organic with everything in my diet, when the options are there for specific foods?

Do you eat organic?

 

[hollydolly]

I do, but I don't eat organic oatmeal, well I have but generally I don't... ( although I do eat a lot of other organic foods) .. and I suffer from Gastritis... just looking at anything acidic gives me heartburn , but I have to say the Non organic oatmeal doesn't give me heartburn..

 

[Devi]

We eat organic everything, except we often eat "natural" meats (whatever "natural" means anymore). "Organic" generally means without GMOs and herbicides, pesticides, etc. When we first started, it took about six weeks to feel what I felt was the GMOs, herbicides and pesticides cleaning out of our systems.

We've been eating this way for so many years that, when we eat "normal" food, we can really feel the ill effects immediately ... I mean, that day, within hours.

Not insisting anyone else eat that way. It's just what we do.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I just found out a strange thing about oatmeal. I have to eat gluten free so I bought gluten free oatmeal that happened to be organic as well.
I felt sick a few hours after eating it. I knew for a fact oats are gluten free. The only difference is that the non gluten free oats can be followed by a wheat crop and sometimes wheat sprouts and can get mixed in.
I knew mine were gluten free,I checked online and read that there is a chemical in oats that acts like gluten and sometimes people with celiac disease can't tolerate oats as well. I guess I'm one of them.
I just mention this because it shows how complicated our food supply is. Organic, GMO free,natural or gluten free can be very complicated and sometimes I wonder if all are labeled correctly.