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(CNN) – You can protect yourself from cancer by eating organic, a new study suggests. Those who frequently eat organic foods lowered their overall risk of developing cancer, a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine finds. Specifically, those who primarily eat organic foods were more likely to ward off non-Hod- gkin lymphoma and postmenopausal breast cancer compared to those who rarely or never ate organic foods.

• More than 68,000 French adults took part in the study
• Those who ate the most organic food were 25% less likely to develop cancer

Led by Julia Baudry, an epidemiologist at Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale in France, a team of researchers looked at the diets of 68,946 French adults. More than three-quar- ters of the volunteers were women, in their mid-40s on average. These volunteers were categorized into four groups depending on how often they reported eating 16 organic products, including fruits and vegetables, meat and fish, ready-to-eat meals, vegeta- ble oils and condiments, dietary supplements and other products.

A commercial macadamia nut grower recently asked for help starting an organic orchard on recently acquired land. Once part of a large macadamia plantation, the land has lain fallow for multiple years. This would be a challenge for the grower and I since neither of us had operated an organic tree farm. However, it was an opportunity to evaluate organic products from day one and I could not say no. After all, there is a first time for everything.

This fascinating 2 min video shows a family who was not eating organic due to perceived cost. They switched as part of a study to see what would happened to them after just 2 weeks of organic only. Can two weeks really make a difference?