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Default Interesting article about children and organic foods

Parents Turn to Organic Over Food Fears
http://tinyurl.com/82ojs
"The concern about children is that they are more vulnerable to toxins in
their diets, said Alan Greene, a pediatrician in northern California. As
children grow rapidly, their brains and organs are forming and they eat more
for their size than do grown-ups, Greene said.

"Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults
do," said Greene, who promotes organic food in his books and on his Web
site, http://www.drgreene.com.

New government-funded research adds to the concern. A study of children
whose diets were changed from regular to organic found their pesticide
levels plunged almost immediately. The amount of pesticide detected in the
children remained imperceptible until their diets were switched back to
conventional food.

"We didn't expect that to drop in such dramatic fashion," said Emory
University's Chensheng Lu, who led the Environmental Protection
Agency-funded research. Lu's findings will be published in February in the
journal Environmental Health Perspectives."