Sun, 19 Feb 2006

Organic diets lower children's exposure to two common pesticides

At last - another Study in Stupidity! I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that eating foods that aren't coated with pesticides reduces the pesticide concentration to non-detectable levels...

What's next for this study's authors? How about "not swimming in motor oil reduces motor oil exposure"? Or "not eating lead paint chips reduces lead levels"? I wonder how much this "study" cost us - it was funded by the EPA.

Organic diets lower children's dietary exposure to two common pesticides used in US agricultural production, according to a study by Emory University researcher Chensheng Alex Lu, PhD. The substitution of organic food items for children's normal diets substantially decreased the pesticide concentration to non-detectable levels.

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