(dailyRx News) In a recent study, researchers in Norway examined
pregnant women's eating habits with regards to organic foods.
The findings, which appear in the journal BMC Public Health,
reveal the kind of women who choose organic foods and the types
of food that they consume. Over the last couple decades, demand
for organic food has risen dramatically. Between 1990 and 2009,
total organic food sales in the United States increased from $1
billion to $24.8 billion. Organic foods sales accounted for
about 3.7 percent of all US food and beverage sales in 2009. As
demand in Europe increase as well, Ph.D. student Hanne Torjusen
and colleagues wanted to find out how much organic food
Norwegian, pregnant women consumed. Using data from 63,561 women
who participated in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
(MoBa), the researchers found that nearly one in ten pregnant
women eats organic food on a regular basis. The most commonly
consumed foods were organic eggs and vegetables. The study also
revealed the charac