*Reduce Cancer Risk By Eating Organic, Study* (2018), Pesticides, Herbicides (2019)

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- 'You can cut your cancer risk by eating organic, a new study says.' CNN, *Oct. 22, 2018.- *More than 68,000 French adults took part in the study. Those who ate the most organic food were 25% less likely to develop cancer.* Excerpts:

Oct. 2018 (CNN)- You can protect yourself from cancer by eating organic, a new study suggests. Those who frequently eat organic foods lowered their overall risk of developing cancer, a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine finds. Specifically, those who primarily eat organic foods were more likely to ward off non-Hodgkin lymphoma and postmenopausal breast cancer compared to those who rarely or never ate organic foods. Led by Julia Baudry, an epidemiologist at Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale in France, a team of researchers looked at the diets of 68,946 French adults...

(Related Article: Are there too many antibiotics in your fast food meat?)

Follow-up time varied for each participant but lasted slightly more than four and a half years on average, and during that time, the study volunteers developed a total of 1,340 cancers. The most prevalent was breast cancer (459) followed by prostate cancer (180), skin cancer (135), colorectal cancer (99), and non-Hodgkin lymphomas (47).

The authors calculated cancer risk: Comparing the participants' organic food scores with cancer cases, the researchers calculated a negative relationship between high scores (eating the most organic food) and overall cancer risk. Those who ate the most organic food were 25% less likely to develop cancer. Specifically, they were 73% less likely to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 21% less likely to develop post-menopausal breast cancer.Even participants who ate low-to-medium quality diets yet stuck with organic food experienced a reduced risk of cancer, the authors found.

"If the findings are confirmed, promoting organic food consumption in the general population could be a promising preventive strategy against cancer," Baudry and her colleagues concluded. Most people who are not employed in agriculture are exposed to pesticide residues through food, said Chavarro, who was not involved in the study. > The new findings are consistent with those of the International Agency for Reseach in Cancer, which found *PESTICIDES are cancer causing in humans, noted Chavarro...
More, https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/health/organic-food-cancer-study/index.html

- NEW, 'Weedkiller 'Raises Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma By 41%,' The Guardian, Feb. 14, 2019.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/14/weed-killing-products-increase-cancer-risk-of-cancer

- NEW, 'Study Shows Toxic Pesticide Levels in Families Dropped by 60% After One-Week Organic Diet,' CD, Feb. 12, 2019
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/12/study-shows-toxic-pesticide-levels-families-dropped-60-after-one-week-organic-diet

->* 'Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289m As Jury Rules Weedkiller Caused Man's Cancer,' Court finds in favor of Dewayne Johnson, first person to take Roundup maker to trial. The Guardian, Aug. 11, 2018.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling

- *CNN: CLEANEST FOODS* See article-SLIDES:

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1. Glyphosate/'Roundup' weedkiller in food? What's for lunch?

- Genetically Modified Organisms/GMO Food, Crops: cotton, corn, soybeans, canola, sugar beets, alfalfa, more.
http://time.com/3840073/gmo-food-charts/



GMO Crops (Colorado State Univ. 2014)

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2. We try to eat only Organic

It is difficult. The only effective way to do it, grow your own!
Gardens, Not lawns.

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3. Correlation does not necessarily prove causation

People who can afford organic are generally more health-conscious, have healthier life styles, etc.
It's possible that's the reason.