News regarding traditional wisdom and native diets regarding nutrition.

    Discover the health benefits of bananas

    by: Shona Botes
    NaturalNews
    (NaturalNews) So often, the humble banana is often overlooked when it comes to providing nutritional and medicinal value. Bananas in fact have a lot to offer us, both nutritionally, as well as in relieving the symptoms of a myriad of physical complaints.

    Bananas are rich in vitamins, minerals and […]

      9 Steps to Perfect Health – Part 3: Eat Real Food

      by The Healthy Skeptic
      In the first article of this series we talked about the negative impact of 4 common food toxins: wheat, industrial seed oil, fructose and processed soy. In the second article we discussedwhich fats, carbohydrates and proteins are the best source of fuel for your body. In this article we’re going to importance […]

        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 […]