Category: Organic food
Pesticides and Human Health
Pesticides include over 600 unique chemicals that are designed to kill living organisms. Measurable levels of many of them are found in the bodies of nearly all Americans. Eating pesticide-treated fruits and vegetables is the main source of exposure for most of us. There has been concern for years that…
Precious Gems
Is Organic Food Really Worth the Cost?
Most people think that eating organically is a good idea, but many wonder if the benefits are really solid. Until recently, scientific opinion on this question has been divided because there’s not been much hard data to answer it definitively. Now a major scientific article in the British Journal of…
Vitamin Concerns
A recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA: 9/18/2013) carried an important article that summarizes our current state of knowledge about vitamin and antioxidant supplements. This Cochrane review included evaluation of 78 randomized clinical trials involving 296,707 adults. Their average age was 63 and 46 percent…