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Many consumers choose to eat organic food due to the fact they think it is healthier for them, but at the moment there is not actually any convincing evidence that proves organic food is more nutritious for you.

Although there are questions at the moment about the nutritional value of organic food, there are other factors that can cause people to purchase organic food.  For example, organic food is not treated with pesticides, antibiotics, or fertilizers, or hormones, which is one reason that it may be more beneficial to people’s health and certainly the environment.

In order to determine if organic food actually aids health, American researchers collected about 160 articles that have been published on the prominent issue over the past 50 years.  Out of these, the researchers decided only 12 of the articles actually met their criteria for determining the health effects of organic food choices.

Out of these 12, half of them only concerned short term trials that studied participants’ blood to determine if organic foods had an impact in the antioxidant activities.  There was no evidence that supported the idea that there are different nutrients found in organic and conventional foods.  It is worth nothing however that the studies had a small limited scope, were very small, and only lasted for a few weeks.

In terms of the other six studies, one found that there was an associated between the occurrence of eczema and organic food.  It was found in this study that children that consumed mostly an organic dairy product diet were less likely to develop eczema than their counterparts that consumed regular dairy items.

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