Research paper
Nutrition-related health effects of organic foods: a systematic review.
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What this study found
BACKGROUND There is uncertainty over the nutrition-related benefits to health of consuming organic foods. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the strength of evidence that nutrition-related health benefits could be attributed to the consumption of foods produced under organic farming methods. DESIGN We systematically searched PubMed, ISI Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, and Embase between 1 January 1958 and 15 September 2008 (and updated until 10 March 2010); contacted subject experts; and hand-searched bibliographies. We included peer-reviewed articles with English abstracts if they reported a…
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- Systematic Reviews / Meta-Analyses
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BACKGROUND There is uncertainty over the nutrition-related benefits to health of consuming organic foods. OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the strength of evidence that nutrition-related health benefits could be attributed to the consumption of foods pr…