--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > Organic food is no healthier, study finds > > > > ******* > > The basis for choosing organic food is to avoid pesticide/herbicide > contamination of one's food and the environment. I'm not sure why anybody > (except for nonorganic farming industry) would choose to make such a narrow > claim that seems obvious without doing this big meta-analysis: nutritional > value of food remains the same whether you soak it in pesticides/herbicides > or not -- amazing! A relevant study would have been to find out if organic > consumers lower their cancer etc risk when compared to nonorganic consumers.
Why would you assume that consuming organics would LOWER cancer risks? If eating non-organics means consuming more pesticides and herbicides wouldn't that be more akin to chemotherapy? Eating non-organics may ward off cancer. I mean, who knows? > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3076638/ > > > > > > > > Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:29pm EDT > > > > > > (Reuters) - Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over > > ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday. > > > > Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said > > consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its > > perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an > > estimated $48 billion in 2007. > > > > A systematic review of 162 scientific papers published in the scientific > > literature over the last 50 years, however, found there was no significant > > difference. > > > > "A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist > > between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are > > unlikely to be of any public health relevance," said Alan Dangour, one of > > the report's authors. > > > > "Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the > > selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of > > nutritional superiority." > > > > The results of research, which was commissioned by the British government's > > Food Standards Agency, were published in the American Journal of Clinical > > Nutrition. > > > > Sales of organic food have fallen in some markets, including Britain, as > > recession has led consumers to cut back on purchases. > > > > The Soil Association said in April that growth in sales of organic products > > in Britain slowed to just 1.7 percent in 2008, well below the average > > annual growth rate of 26 percent over the last decade, following a plunge > > in demand at the end of the year. > > > > (Reporting by Ben Hirschler; editing by Simon Jessop) > > >
