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Eating Organic Has No Effect on Cancer Risk

“A New Study Has Found that Eating an Organic Diet Does Not Reduce the Risk of Cancer,” by CBS Atlanta.
Researchers monitored the health of 600,000 women aged 50 or older for nine years asking whether they ate pesticide-free organic food. Roughly 50,000 of the women developed one of the 16 most common cancers during the study period in total. No difference in overall cancer risk was found between a comparison of 45,000 women who “always” or “usually” chose organic food and 180 women who never ate organic food. Read more.