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Organic gardens: Growing organic food mean your children are getting less pesticide exposure.. More about organic gardening:
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If you are an organic gardener, you probably already know that your kids are getting less pesticide exposure than kids whose parents do not garden organically. Growing organic food also helps your child stay healthy for life. According to a study by the National Research Council (NRC) entitled Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), scientists concluded that 1. Dietary intake represents a major source of pesticide exposure for infants and young children. 2. This exposure may account for the increased pesticide-related health risks in children compared with adults. Another study by the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington resulting in the following conclusion, "This study found that children with primarily organic diets had significantly lower organophosphorus pesticide exposure than did children with primarily conventional diets. Dose estimates generated from pesticide metabolite data suggest that organic diets can reduce children's exposure levels from above to below the U.S. EPA's chronic reference doses, thereby shifting exposures from a range of uncertain risk to a range of negligible risk. Consumption of organic produce represents a relatively simple means for parents to reduce their children's exposure to pesticides |
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