News regarding traditional wisdom and native diets regarding nutrition.
Saturated fat: true killer or whipping boy?
by Denise Minger
Raw Food SOS
Saturated fat: true killer or whipping boy?
Here’s what the USDA has to say about saturated fat:
A strong body of evidence indicates that higher intake of most dietary saturated fatty acids is associated with higher levels of blood total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Higher total and LDL […]
Eaters Must Become More Political – We Can’t Just Vote With Our Forks
White House Garden – AlterNet
By Wenonah Hauter – AlterNet
Our voices must begin to compete with the very strong preference elected politicians have for getting reelected – and funding their campaigns.
As the popular face of the Obama administration’s advocacy for healthy, nutritious food, Michelle Obama has conveniently side-stepped […]
Supermarket Chicken Harbours Superbugs
by CBC news
Chicken bought at major supermarkets across Canada is frequently contaminated with superbugs — bacteria that many antibiotics cannot kill — an investigation by CBC TV’s Marketplace has found.
Marketplace researchers — along with their colleagues at Radio-Canada’s food show L’Epicerie — bought 100 samples of chicken from major grocery chains in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
The […]
Attitudes on Saturated Fats Continue to Change: The Lipid Theory of Heart Disease Dies a Slow Death
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News
As I mentioned in my year-end review of 2010, attitudes towards saturated fats took a dramatic turn in 2010. The study that garnered the most media coverage was the one done at the Department of Atherosclerosis Research of the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, CA, and that was […]
Salt Strictures in New USDA Dietary Guidelines will Increase Cardiovascular and Other Health Risks
Artwork Credit: Morton Satin
Government Policy is Uncontrolled Trial on More than 300 Million Americans
By Morton Satin, Vice President, Science and Research, Salt Institute
posted on Hartke Is Online
The public record demonstrates that the previous Dietary Guidelines have not improved the health of consumers, but have instead resulted in confusion and fueled our national […]
Can Saturated Fat in Milk Help Maintain Good Cholesterol?
Nutritional Outlook
Past studies have noted that milk, even though it is high in saturated fat, does not appear to increase risk of heart disease. Could the saturated fat in milk have some effect that doesn’t increase total and bad cholesterol?
Research coming out of the University of Copenhagen suggests that milk might actually help maintain […]
Saturated Fat is Actually Healthy for Your Heart
Health Impact News Comment:
Paula Owens, a nutritionist, fitness expert and weight loss coach with more than 20 years, has written a very good article today in the Ahwatukee Foothills News: Three things you may not know about heart health – Please click through and read this article. Here is an excerpt:
Saturated fat is actually healthy […]
Add Grassfed Meat to your diet: it has healthy fat!
Grassfed sirloin roast, with a delicious, nutritious fat cap.
by Stanley A. Fishman
Our culture has a phobia about animal fat. The horrid nutritional guidelines just issued by the U.S. government tell us to eat meat only occasionally, and eat only lean meat. This is truly a shame, because animal fat from pastured animals contains many vital […]
Industry Ads Attack Raw Milk, But Texas Bill Going Strong
By Judith McGeary, Esq.
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
The Big Dairy opposition to raw milk took a new turn recently when an industry group began running radio ads, across the state of Texas, warning the public away from raw milk. Not only did the ads include false and misleading information, but the campaign was being funded with […]
Is Raw Milk Safe to Drink?
by Jaime McLeod
Farmer’s Almanac
Raw milk is, quite simply, milk that comes straight from the cow without being pasteurized. But, they pasteurize milk for a reason, right? So, how could drinking unpasteurized milk be safe?
Pasteurization involves heating foods, then rapidly cooling them again to kill off any microorganisms living in the food. The process, invented […]
Why Rancid “Healthy” Oils Are More Dangerous Than The “Bad” Oils
by Thomas Corriher
We have written several articles about healthy verses unhealthy oils in the past, and there are a plethora of things to consider when using cooking oils. We are revisiting this topic due to reader interest.
While the nutritional content of cooking oils is usually considered, the rancidity of oils is actually of greater […]
Listen to raw milk farmers Michael Schmidt and Alice Jongerden discuss the movie “Milk War”
by The Bovine
Listen to an interview with Alice Jongerden on Blog Talk Radio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/awakentoyouradio/2011/01/27/raw-milk-health-accessibility
Michael Schmidt with Alice Jongerden on stage in British Columbia.
About the interview: “Wednesday, 02 February 2011 Alice Jongerden, the founder and former operator of a 450-member Fresh Milk cowshare in Chilliwack, BC, has been under attack by the Fraser Health […]
President Taft Kept a Cow on the White House Lawn and Drank Raw Milk
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
Photo from The History Chef
by Suzy Evans, J.D., Ph.D.
President Taft kept a family dairy cow named Pauline Wayne on the White House lawn. For two years, Pauline supplied Taft and his family with fresh milk. When Taft left office in 1913, Pauline was shipped back to her former […]
Fat Like Us: Europe’s Diet Becoming Americanized Thanks to Soy Feed Imports
by NorthCentralPA.com
McDonald’s Earned More Revenue From Europe than U.S. in 2009
Washington, D.C. – Decades of trade rules that dismantled or restructured farm safety net programs in the European Union have displaced sustainable, domestic feed grain production and escalated dangerous soy imports from Latin America—and helped turn European farms into polluting factory farms while driving […]
Why Alaska is Losing the Fight to Block Genetically Engineered Salmon
Health Impact News Editor Comments:
Melanie Warner has written a good article on bnet.com chronicling the difficulties senators from Alaska and other salmon producing states are having in battling the approval of genetically engineered salmon that many label as “frankenfish.” Warner states that “the FDA appears to be hellbent on providing U.S. consumers with their […]
Massachusetts Files Bill to Allow Raw Milk Sales off the Farm
Dairies seek to deliver raw milk
New bill would loosen regulations
By Christine Legere
Two raw-milk farms south of Boston are among 27 statewide that stand to benefit from legislation that would allow farms to deliver the product directly to […]
A Tale of Two Calves — One Calf was Fed on Raw Milk, the Other on Pasteurized
Health Impact News Editor’s comments:
This excellent blog post records a four month trial feeding one calf raw milk, and one calf pasteurized milk. The weight of the two calves was basically equal at the beginning of the feeding trial. At the end the raw milk calf weight 200 kg and the pasteurized milk calf weight […]
Care and Respect for the Meat on Your Plate: Humanely Raised Food Tastes Better
by Cooking Up a Story
If the name Ben Dyer doesn’t mean anything to you, well you just may be missing out. As it happens, Dyer is a bit of a wizard chef, not only in terms of his cooking abilities, but his interrelated entrepreneurial endeavors that are almost avant-garde in style, and purpose.
Take for […]
The Type of Fats and Carbs You Eat is Far More Important than the Amount
Picture from The Healthy Skeptic
Health Impact News Editor Comment:
Chris Kresser has written an excellent article about how foods nourish us, examining the macronutrients such as fats and carbohydrates. He correctly points out how foolish it is to develop dietary guidelines that characterize certain classes of food all into one category, and gives examples of […]
Popular Infant Juices Loaded with Toxic Fluoride
by: Jonathan Benson
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) A study to be presented at the March 17, 2011, annual meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in San Diego reveals that infant fruit juices of all types contain toxic fluoride, and many contain levels that far exceed federal guidelines. Infants and children that drink […]