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Was hoping to find a well-stocked health food store somewhere on the road (Pacific Coast route) to Osa. Any suggestions out there? Thank you very much!
Not many well stocked health food stores [i]anywhere[/i] in the country. The largest [url=http://www.qcostarica.com/2014/05/21/gnc-closes-costa-rica-stores-for-dispute-with-the-ministry-of-health/]GNC[/url] has presently closed it’s doors. You will not find the type of ‘macrobiótica’ similar to what you be used to.
Realize that food supplements etc. are [url=http://www.aerocasillas.com/web/frontend/restringidos?lang=_eng&country=sjo]Restricted[/url] [u] so are not [/u]permitted to be sent via the mail or though courier service, unless you apply for a import permit, which is not so cheap and easy to do, as every item need a specific permit and you will be required to travel to ‘pick up your goods’ as they will [u]not[/u] be shipped to your address.Speaking of health food, Costa Rica is reputed to use more pesticides than some other countries on their agricultural products. One doesn’t hear much about autistic children here, though they must exist. The Environmental News Network today reported on a ‘ClickGreen’ article on the relationship between pesticides and autism:
Pregnant women who lived in close proximity to fields and farms where chemical pesticides were applied experienced a two-thirds increased risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental delay, according to a new study.
The research discovered the associations were even stronger when the exposures occurred during the second and third trimesters of the women’s pregnancies.
The large, multisite California-based study by researchers with the UC Davis MIND Institute examined associations between specific classes of pesticides, including organophosphates, pyrethroids and carbamates, applied during the study participants’ pregnancies and later diagnoses of autism and developmental delay in their offspring.
“This study validates the results of earlier research that has reported associations between having a child with autism and prenatal exposure to agricultural chemicals in California,” said lead study author Janie F. Shelton, a UC Davis graduate student who now consults with the United Nations.If interested, more details here: http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/analysis/
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