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I love cartoons. I always have. Perhaps it’s the child in me. Anyway, yesterday I received an email from Seppo Leinonen, a cartoonist and illustrator from Finland. Seppo was emailing to inform me of his weekly cartoon feature. Seppo’s feature cartoon this week is in response to one of our recent posts, which provided details of a recent study finding that organic milk reduces childhood eczema. A smaller version of Seppo’s artwork appears to the side of this post. Good fun! If you enjoy cartoons, please visit Seppo’s website which contains an array of humorous and sharp-witted observations on all things environmental. There is some fabulous work on his site and I for one will be visiting often. Humour and laughter certainly make the...

A newly published scientific study conducted by the Louis Bolk Institute Department of Health Care and Nutrition in the Netherlands shows that the incidence of eczema in infants fed on organic dairy products, and whose mothers also consumed organic dairy products, is 36% lower than in children who consume conventional dairy products. Why is this particular study significant? While a large number of studies have found that organic food contains higher levels of beneficial nutrients than non-organic foods, this is the first example of a definite health impact (i.e. isolated from other potential beneficial factors) of organic food consumption being published in a peer reviewed journal. Professor Carlo Leifert, at Newcastle University, leader of...