I 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

I 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.