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My friends like to shit on me for eating organic, but it looks like hormones and pesticides lead to weight gain https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=pesticides+
by elchief 8y ago
My friends like to shit on me for eating organic, but it looks like hormones and pesticides lead to weight gain
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=pesticides+obesity https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=pesticides+obesity
On the flip side, there probably isn't enough land for everyone to eat organic, so it's not a global solution
- whatisthewhy 8y agoI looked at a few of those studies (including the top hits) and it doesn't look like any of them bothered to control for patient income. Since organic food and thus exposure to non-organic-farming hormone and pesticides is basically a proxy for income nothing at all useful can be drawn from these studies other than that poor people tend to be fatter. Medical studies in general have a long way to go to catch up to even the stuff coming out of social-science and public policy journals.
- syn0byte 8y agoMost of the weight you manage to keep off from eating organic comes off your wallet. "organic" is a marketing buzzword that doesn't have the meaning that you are told. USDA certified "organic" vegetables can be grown with tons of hormones and pesticides, provided they are organic in origin themselves. They can even use non-organic chemicals provided enough of the organics board decides an organic version is too costly. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/01/25/organic-101-allowed-and-prohibited-substances https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/01/25/organic-101-allow...