Many people ask if eating organic foods really makes a difference. A 2003 study in Environmental Health Perspectives provides the answer. One group of children was fed a diet that was 75 percent organic foods, while another group was fed 75 percent conventional foods. The children’s urine was then measured for pesticides. The children eating conventional foods measured four times the official safety limit. Yet after only a few days, the children in the organic group measured only one-sixth as much as the conventional group and within the safety limit. Eating organic does make a difference—a
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