People who eat organic food are 25 per cent less likely to get cancer, according to a study of almost 70,000 volunteers.
Researchers say that pesticides in conventional fruit and vegetables can cause cancer, suggesting that going organic helps to prevent the disease.
Previous studies have failed to find any convincing evidence that organic foods protect against disease or are more nutritious. Now researchers at Paris University have studied 69,000 people who were questioned about their diet and followed for an average of five years, during which 1,340 of them developed cancer.
The quarter of people who ate the most organic food were 25 per cent less likely to get cancer than the quarter who ate the least, even after adjusting for age, class and