STUDY REVEALS TRUTH ABOUT DIET IN PREGNANCY Brace yourselves, pregnant women. No, that’s not the headline from Huffington Post, Time, Yahoo, WebMD, Fox News or even Natural News, at least not this time. This high drama comes from the University of Newcastle in Australia. …
This is rich. Mark Bittman debunking the Stanford organics study from last month or as he called it in the title of his piece That Flawed Stanford Study. You remember the study – the one showing organic fruits and veggies provided no more nutrients or minerals than traditionally-grown ones (i.e. with pesticides). I followed my original post with a second one given the slap down it …
There’s been an onslaught of organic food advocacy in recent days in response to the Stanford study concluding organic produce and meats are no more nutritious. Why left so many folks sour? Here’s the less than earth shattering conclusions from the study authors: The published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are …
Stanford researchers threw some shade on organic produce this week. After scouring 237 studies collected over forty years, they concluded in a study published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine* that organic fruits and vegetables offered no more nutritonal benefits than produce with a side of pesticides. No more vitamins and minerals. Nor did organic mean less E. coli …
Mark Bittman, Anti-Milk Activitst? From MarkBittman.com. So recently foodie and New York Times culinary columnist Mark Bittman reported we drink too much milk and purported his chronic heartburn ceased when he nixed the cow nectar. Now he confessed he’s been conducting an informal survey of family and friends who apparently have suffered the same lactose-induced …