"But Kastel counters that it’s just common sense to minimize exposure by avoiding the most doused produce, like apples."
Sometimes, common sense is not very common. You can find articles out there that claim that cooking foods in the microwave causes it to become radioactive; that's not true, either. The fact is, there are many causes of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, primarily genetics combined with living long enough to acquire them and too many calories combined with not enough exercise. Check out the research into the Hygiene Hypothesis. It's very interesting.
Sorry, TL. To me, this just looks like another scare-mongering article.