Milk
01/06/2010 - Is Milk From Grass-Fed Cows More Heart Healthy?
Milk may be more heart healthy if it comes from dairy cows grazed on grass instead of on feedlots.
Cows on a diet of fresh grass produce milk with five times as much of an unsaturated fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which animal studies have suggested can protect your heart and aid in weight loss.
Now, according to Reuters:
“[Researchers] found, in a study of 4,000 people, that people with the highest concentrations of CLAs -- the top fifth among all participants -- had a 36 percent lower risk of heart attack compared to those with the lowest concentrations.”
Read the article on Mercola.com
14/04/2010 - Does Drinking Milk Cause Upper-Respiratory Congestion?
Conventional wisdom states that drinking milk causes an increase in phlegm. Scientists have have generally dismissed the notion, though, since experiments do not seem to bear it out. In one study, researchers noted that even people who were inoculated with the common cold virus did not show any increase in symptoms when they drank milk. But a new report suggests that those earlier studies suffered from a critical flaw: not all milk is the same. Some types of milk contain a protein called beta-CM-7. This protein can stimulate mucus glands in your digestive tract -- and these glands can also found in your respiratory tract. Milk containing the beta-CM-7 protein could therefore very well stimulate phlegm -- particularly in people who suffer from chronic lung conditions. Read the original article on Mercola.com
23/04/2009 - Diary products: 25 Reasons to avoid them
In the Western world we believe that milk is good for health: it contains a lot of calcium that is good for bones and proteins to grow. But this dogma is not shared by all health professionals, neither in all countries.In the Eastern world they are not used to drink milk, at least, this habit hasn’t traditionally existed until the dairy industry went there and tried to convince them to do so.
Recently a lot of research has been done to find out about the origin of Western civilization diseases: obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, etc, diseases that have a very low rate in Eastern countries. There are several theories that incriminate the bad quality of our nutrition: too much fat, too much sugar, too much refined food, and a new one: too much milk. Milk is said also to be the cause of respiratory problems in children.
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03/02/2009 - Got Milk Allergy? What the Labels (and Docs!) Don't Tell Us
Interestingly, a new protein was introduced into the American milk supply just over ten years ago. Children with a milk allergy see the proteins found in milk as “foreign” which in turn triggers an allergic reaction.
Are these recently introduced proteins responsible for the milk allergy epidemic? You decide.
What the leading pediatric allergists (funded by Big Food and Big Pharma) failed to tell us…
In the early 1990s, one of the world’s largest chemical companies, Monsanto Corporation, in conjunction with a global pharmaceutical corporation, invented a drug that could be injected into cows to increase their milk production.
Read the article on AllergyKids.com
01/12/2008 - Wheat and lack of variety in our meals
In nutrition we all know that we need diversity, that we have to eat food that give us carbohydrates, proteins, calcium, vitamins, fibre, etc. So in order to acquire the carbohydrates we eat cereals: bread, pasta, pizzas, biscuits,… but, do you have ever thought that all that is based on the same cereal: wheat?07/10/2008 - Some problems to breastfeeding...
Read the article on DocRoberts Holistic Health Blog
11/08/2008 - The isoflavones of the soy milk
Soy milk is a good substitute of cow milk for milk intolerance persons. But, do you know the recommendations that some health organisations give about children drinking this kind of milk? Foto de nkzs
