英文短文：有機(jī)食品并非"更健康"

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　　Eating organic food will not make you healthier, according to researchers at Stanford University, although it could cut your exposure to pesticides. They looked at more than 200 studies of the content and associated health gains of organic and non-organic foods. Overall, there was no discernible difference between the nutritional content, although the organic food was 30% less likely to contain pesticides.

　　美國斯坦福大學(xué)的一組研究人員對200多項(xiàng)有關(guān)有機(jī)食品和非有機(jī)食品的對比研究分析后發(fā)現(xiàn)，有機(jī)食品雖然可以讓消費(fèi)者接觸到更少的農(nóng)藥，但其營養(yǎng)價(jià)值并不像人們想象的那么明顯。

　　Critics say the work is inconclusive and call for more studies. The research, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at 17 studies comparing people who ate organic with those who did not and 223 studies that compared the levels of nutrients, bacteria, fungus or pesticides in various foods - including fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, milk and eggs. None of the human studies ran for longer than two years, making conclusions about long-term outcomes impossible. And all of the available evidence was relatively weak and highly variable - which the authors say is unsurprising because of all the different variables, like weather and soil type, involved.

　　該研究分析了17個(gè)食用有機(jī)食品和未食用有機(jī)食品的人類對比研究，還對223個(gè)有關(guān)水果、蔬菜、谷物、肉類、牛奶和雞蛋有機(jī)和無機(jī)產(chǎn)品營養(yǎng)價(jià)值、細(xì)菌及農(nóng)藥含量的對比研究進(jìn)行了分析。因上述人類研究持續(xù)時(shí)間均不超過兩年，研究人員無法對長期實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果得出結(jié)論。

　　Fruit and vegetables contained similar amounts of vitamins, and milk the same amount of protein and fat - although a few studies suggested organic milk contained more omega-3. Organic foods did contain more nitrogen, but the researchers say this is probably due to differences in fertilizer use and ripeness at harvest and is unlikely to provide any health benefit.

　　在食品類的對比研究分析中，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)有機(jī)和無機(jī)蔬果中的維生素含量相近，牛奶中的蛋白質(zhì)和脂肪含量也接近。有少數(shù)研究顯示有機(jī)牛奶中不飽和脂肪酸（omega-3）的含量較高。研究人員表示，有機(jī)食品中的氮含量的確高于普通食品，不過這可能與肥料及收獲時(shí)食品的成熟度有關(guān)，而且氮含量高的食品并沒有任何保健價(jià)值。

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