Food grown without chemicals can create a barrier against pesticides, but also nurture more, say investigadores. Organic foods protect children from pesticides, while foods derived from modern intensive agriculture has less nutrients that 60 years ago, as revealed to two new scientific studies. A U.S. team from Emory University analyzed urine samples of children aged [...]
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Is it really more healthy eating organic lettuce or bananas those produced by conventional agriculture? Opinions are divided. “There are not many rigorous experimental studies for comparing the nutritional value of organic versus conventional,” said Marine Abel, Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Barcelona. A preview of the results of one of the [...]
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It is often confused with the vegetarian diet, or macrobiotic, but the truth is that the organic diet is defined by itself. The Organic Consumers Association explains that “foods are considered ‘organic’ to those foods, usually vegetables and fruits at any stage of production involved fertilizers, herbicides or chemical pesticides, nor in the soil where [...]
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