Thursday, 6 September 2012

Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods

Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods: Stanford CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2012



You're in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. You figure you've just made the healthier decision by choosing the organic product - but new findings from Stanford University cast some doubt on your thinking.

"There isn't much difference between organic and