Children exclusively fed organic dairy products are significantly less likely to develop allergies, asthma or eczema by the age of two, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Louis Bolk Institut in the Netherlands and published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
Researchers followed 2500 pregnant women until their children were two years old, recording information on their health and their lifestyle and dietary habits.
They found that the rate of allergies was 36 percent lower among children who consumed organic milk, cheese and yoghurt, and whose mothers had consumed these products while breastfeeding, than among children and mothers who had eaten either only conventional dairy products or a mix of organic and conventional products.
Researchers are yet to discover whether the increased allergy risk from conventional dairy is caused by extra toxic ingredients, such as antibiotics, by lower levels of key nutrients, such as omage-3 fatty acids, by some combination of the two, or by some other factor.
Courtesy Clean Food Organic Magazine
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