Food and health

The Secret History of Milk - and an ACRES USA interview with Ron Schmidt - author of "the Untold Story of Milk"

The Truth about milk - US raw milk proponent and dairyman, Mark McAfee, sheds some light on pasteurization, the benefits of consuming unadulterated food and the war on bacteria. The first of a four part seminar series hosted by Rutgers University Agriculture Experiment Station.

Why you should eat offal  By Cherry Ripe

If rules change will Camembert stay the same? Traditional French raw milk cheeses under threat  from large manufacturers and retailers

Adventures in Diet By Vilhjalmur Stefansson  -  Natural fats and heart disease  - fact or fiction
Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov and Dec 1935 and January 1936.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 

Eating Reindeer:  "Where Home Cooking Gets the Cold Shoulder"                      by Andreas Viestand

This article appeared in the Washington Post and is about traditional reindeer cuisine in the Tundra.

 Eat Fat and Grow thin

Medicine

How Effective are Modern Medicine's treatments? The British Medical Journal in its publication BMJ Clinical Evidence, found that of about 2,500 treatments offered in conventional medicine Of around 2500 treatments covered 13% are rated as beneficial, 23% likely to be beneficial, 8% as trade off between benefits and harms, 6% unlikely to be beneficial, 4% likely to be ineffective or harmful, and 46%, the largest proportion, as unknown effectiveness.

High Cholesterol may protect against infections and atherosclerosis -  by Dr Uffe Ravnskov

Seniors with high cholesterol healthy

 Scandinavian Journal ofPrimary Health Care, 2010;28: 121-127

In the Scandinavian Journal of Primary HealthCare a Finnish study has just reported that the general health status ofseniors with high cholesterol far exceeds that of their counterparts having lowcholesterol. In whatever marker of health and morbidity one wished to measure -mortality, strokes, myocardial infarction, infectious disease or dementia, theseniors with highest cholesterol fared far better. Particularly important isthe observation that these >75-year old seniors were free-ranging, that isliving on their own or with relatives. Arandom sample of all persons aged 75+ years, living in Kuopio, Finland wasmade.

After exclusion ofparticipants living in institutional care and participants usinglipid-modifying agents or missing data on blood pressure and cholesterollevels, the final study population consisted of 490 home-dwelling elderlypersons. The conclusion of the doctors after the 6-year study period was thatparticipants with a low serum total cholesterol had a lower survival rate thanparticipants with an elevated cholesterol level, irrespective of concomitantdiseases or general health status.