A zero pesticide diet for ten days. As part of a study on the impact of organic food about health, Greenpeace Japan proposed to two families (each with two children) from the Japanese archipelago to temporarily change their diet. During this time, therefore, the two families have exchanged their diet based on conventional agricultural products to switch to a diet 100% composed of food from organic farming.
At the beginning and at the end of the experiment, urine samples were collected to establish a comparative assessment of the levels of pesticides present in the bodies of the four children and the adults. If the study was commissioned by Greepeace Japan, the analyzes were carried out in an independent laboratory in Germany to guarantee total objectivity.
Assessment of this “detox cure”? In all members of both families, pesticides have almost disappeared from the body. In children, the difference is even more striking after ten days of organic food consumption : Pesticide levels in urine decreased significantly while they had comparatively higher levels of some pesticides compared to adults (possibly due to children’s short stature and lower body weight).
Tomorrow, all organic?
What lessons can be learned from this small-scale study? Greenpeace Japan first stresses the danger of the exposure of younger generations to pesticides: “children can be very sensitive to the effects of toxic chemicals because their organs are still developing”, stresses The report. There are several reasons for this: the brain is developing and therefore more vulnerable to neurotoxic compounds.
The second lesson for the NGO, this study suggests that eating organic food is an effective way to reduce chemical pesticides in the body.
This is not the first time that such an experiment has been carried out. In 2015 and 2016, Swedish families lent each otherplaying for two weeks with such positive results.
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