Swedish researchers have succeeded in establishing a link between the consumption of organic products and the reduction of toxic products in the body.
A study by the Swedish Institute for Environmental Research (IVL) states that eating organic foods would promote the disappearance of pesticides in the human body. This work highlights the importance of food from organic farming, but above all, of preventing the dangers of pesticides and their harmful effects on humans.
A gradual decline in pesticides
A Swedish family of five served as a “guinea pig” for three weeks. Thus, the Palmbers changed their eating habits for about twenty days. Instead of consuming products from traditional channels, the family fed exclusively on products from organic crops (most of the food came from the Coop organic grocery store, which funded the study).
Daily, the Palmbers were subjected to different samples, the results of which would be compared at the end of the experiment. If the first days of traces of pesticides were detected in their urine, it is no longer the bus as the family feeds on organic products. After 14 days of experience, the pesticides had disappeared from the body.
On the other hand, these results should be qualified somewhat. While, according to Jörgen Magner, one of the main authors of the study, it is not known how the different chemicals that humans face interact with each other, there is absolutely no evidence that only one substance, in the dose found at the start of the experiment, is harmful to health.
Pesticides increasingly contested
The debate on pesticides never ceases to unleash passions. While many activists try to downplay their reach by claiming that spraying is not the main cause of accidents among farmers, we still need to remain vigilant. Recently the NGO Greenpeace issued a report warning about the dangers of these products, both for farmers and for consumers.
If more evidence was needed of the potential dangers of pesticides, we could highlight the recent WHO decision to classify the carcinogenic effects of several products sold to the general public as possible to probable. The family of a winegrower had even lodged a complaint against X after the latter suffered from cancer following the almost daily use of a pesticide or traces of arsenic were found …
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