A recent study that was published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal, sought to discover the association between the risk of cancer and an organic food-based diet.
For those participants out of the 70k who had stuck with an organic diet they were seen to develop cancer at a much lower rate, about 25 percent less likely to develop cancer than the others.
The researchers were surprised to find that even when people were eating unhealthy foods but sticking to organic, rather than non, they also were found to have a significantly lower risk of cancer.
The participants in the study were expected to record their own eating habits and to detail their consumption of organic foods and how frequently they ate. Based on their self-reports, the researchers were able to establish an organic food score for them.
For the almost 70k people they had followed, over 1300+ cancer cases had eventually been identified, with the most prevalent being breast cancer, followed by prostate cancer, skin cancer, colorectal cancer, and others.
They discovered that high organic food scores were inversely associated with the overall cancer risk; they seemed to have a reduced risk of cancer.
Researchers admit that the findings still need to be confirmed but they suggest that promoting organic food in society might potentially work as a preventative strategy against cancer.
Despite the variety of reports that have come out suggesting that there isn't any nutritional or health benefit to be gained from going organic, millions of people still opt to purchase organic items and this market is thriving worldwide.
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