{"id":4783,"date":"2012-09-03T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2012-09-03T19:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:00:36","slug":"organic-food-no-healthier-than-non-organic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4783","title":{"rendered":"Organic food no healthier than non-organic: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/03\/us-organic-food-idUSBRE8820M920120903\">Genevra Pittman<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Organic produce and meat typically isn&#8217;t any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers from Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People choose to buy organic foods for many different reasons. One of them is perceived health benefits,&#8221; said Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler, who led the new study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our patients, our families ask about, \u2018Well, are there health reasons to choose organic food in terms of nutritional content or human health outcomes?'&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genevra Pittman: Organic produce and meat typically isn&#8217;t any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence. But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers from Stanford University and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}