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Is Organic More Nutritious? New Study Adds To The Evidence

September 06, 2016

It's often a split-second decision.

You're in the produce aisle, and those organic apples on display look nice. You like the idea of organic — but they're a few bucks extra. Ditto for the organic milk and meat. Do you splurge? Or do you ask yourself: What am I really getting from organic?

Scientists have been trying to answer this question. And the results of a huge new meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Nutrition adds to the evidence that organic production can boost key nutrients in foods.

The findings are part of a growing body of evidence documenting how farming methods can influence the nutritional content of foods.

Research found that organic crops — ranging from carrots and broccoli to apples and blueberries — have substantially higher concentrations of a range of antioxidants and other potentially beneficial compounds. Analysis included data from more than 300 studies.

For instance, organic crops had about 50 percent more anthocyanins and flavonols compared with conventional crops. Anthocyanins are compounds that give fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, their blue, purple and red hues.

Consumption of these compounds is linked to a variety of benefits, including anti-inflammatory effects. Flavonol compounds — found widely in fruits and vegetables — have also been shown to protect cells from damage, which can help fend off disease.

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Source: NPR.org

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Eating is one of life's greatest pleasures. From the very first milk that we take, to the vast array of culinary creations, food gives us sustenance, pleasure and incomparable delight.

Food stirs our emotions and seeds our remembrance. The smells of aromas arouse our affections and invoke powerful memories that travel back through time.

Food energizes us and gives us health, vitality, power and strength. As the saying goes, we are what we eat, and if our bodies are our temples, then food is surely the way that we worship our shrine.

However if food plays such an important role in our lives, then why is it so difficult to eat well, stay healthy and enjoy good nutrition?

The simple answer is SAD and the Modern Western Diet.

In the United States it is referred to as SAD, or Standard American Diet, yet the issues faced by most Americans are now increasingly found all over the Western world. Even with the knowledge of the importance of eating well and maintaining a healthy diet, our busy modern lifestyles, complete with fast food high in fat and sugar, food additives and petrochemicals, and our hyper hectic schedules that leave little or no time, often make healthy eating a challenge, sabotaging even our best of intentions. Statistics show that the Modern Western Diet is the main reason why people all over the world are fatter and sicker than ever before. Triggered by a direct link in the loss of traditional local foods, it seems that everywhere modern processed foods go--chronic diseases like obesity, high-blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease soon follow.

Many factors contribute to good health or illness, but changes in diet are by far the most important. Statistics show that switching to an organic plant based diet can have dramatic positive benefits to overall health and wellbeing. And here's the kicker. It's never too late to start.

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To learn more about organic foods and their nutritional benefits, visit: NPR.org and pick up a copy of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, by Michael Pollan.

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