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Default Organic Food Not More Nutritious !!!

On Jul 29, 5:57*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> A recent review of 162 papers published in peer-reviewed journals
> found no significant difference in nutrition between organic
> and conventional food. *The review was published in the
> _American_Journal_of_Clinical_Nutrition.
>
> http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abst...n.2009.28041v1


I never considered nutrition as a reason to eat organic vs
conventional. It's the lack of pesticides and petro-derived
fertilizers involved in their growth that make me consider organic
the more interesting of the two options.

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