There’s growing skepticism about whether commercially prepared foods purchased off grocery shelves are good for you. In the last 18 months new studies have suggested serious problems with ingredients and products used in all stages of food preparation that are enough to scare the crap out of most people.
Industry players often debate what constitutes good science, with all parties pointing to studies supporting their own self-interests. Groups with economic power are able to persuade more people to their side than fringe groups — and none are guaranteed to represent good science, good conscience or even truth.
On May 17, 2010, The Boston Globe ran a story entitled Research Links Pesticides with ADHD in Children by Carla K. Johnson, an AP medical writer. According to a new study published by The Journal of Pediatrics, she writes, the higher the level of pesticides in children’s urine, the greater their chances of having ADHD — and 94 percent of the kids tested positive for pesticides. The study didn’t measure where the pesticides came from and recognized the source could include the food they ate, the air they breathed or pesticides used around the home. However, the article also quoted a 2008 Emory University study that found in children who switched to organically grown fruits and vegetables, urine levels of pesticide compounds dropped to undetectable or close to undetectable levels.
More research is needed, but who can fault a family switching to organic foods, especially since the price gap between conventional and organic is closing?
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