Health Points

Woman's paralysis attributed to raw milk

2008-08-18T05:39:00.000-07:00

From:http://www.triplicate.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=9851Illness halts raw milk programPublished: August 16, 2008By Nicholas GrubeTriplicate staff writerAlexandre Family EcoDairy Farms ended its raw milk program after several people who consumed the product got sick, including one Crescent City woman who remains in intensive care and is partially paralyzed.The Del Norte County Department of

More dangers or raw milk

2008-06-23T08:59:00.001-07:00

Two news stories show up today on the dangers of raw milk radar. Though there are some benefits (as described in earlier posts) as of now I cannot recommend raw milk to anyone other than healthy adults because of the dangers associated with the product. Even then there is an increased level of risk. The jury is out as the whether the benefits from raw milk might not be gotten from other foods

Raw Milk Health Advisories: December

2007-12-06T18:18:00.000-08:00

TOPEKA | Raw milk sickens 87 in KansasSaying at least 87 people in Kansas have been sickened by bacteria found in raw milk, health officials are warning residents not to consume raw milk or products made from it.In Kearny County, 68 people became ill after eating cheese made from milk donated by a local dairy for a community celebration. The second outbreak was linked to a dairy in south-central

Raw Milk Health Advisories: November 2007 - 2

2007-11-21T08:33:00.000-08:00

A second raw milk health advisory again from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.According to state.pa.us, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the Department of Agriculture has once again announced a recall regarding raw milk. The warning is for anyone who has purchased raw milk from the Conebella dairy farm in Elverson, Chester County, Pennsylvania.From: Associated ContentThe Penn

Raw Milk Health Advisories: November 2007

2007-11-19T08:47:00.000-08:00

Agriculture Department Warns Consumers of Tainted Raw Milk Sold by Chester County Dairy HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers who havepurchased raw milk from the Conebella dairy farm in Elverson, ChesterCounty, any time after Oct. 23,

More good news on Omega-3s

2007-08-08T10:00:00.001-07:00

From the website Food Navigator USA we find out that a recent study has found that omega-3 supplementation could be more useful at preventing colorectal cancer than the currently available suite of drugs used to treat the disease. At least this is true for mice.Colorectal cancer is the #2 killer from cancers in the U.S. Finding alternatives to current colorectal cancer drugs is important due to

Raw Milk Health Advisories: July 2007

2007-07-30T09:59:00.001-07:00

July 24, 2007Raw milk sickens three Georgia familiesRaw milk sold as pet food sickened three northwest Georgia families who drank the milk this summer, sending at least one child to the hospital, health officials said Monday.Story---State tells Stump Acres Dairy to stop raw milk giveawayThe state Department of Health told Stump Acres Dairy last week to stop giving away raw milk to the public

Raw Milk and Health

2007-07-26T12:12:00.001-07:00

Got Bootleg Milk? I have no problem with people deciding on their own if they want to have raw milk or not. What I don't like is the cloak of misinformation and paranoia that surrounds the raw milk advocates. Take for example this post by Gene Logsdon in the "Organic To Be" blog. Seems Mr. Logsdon grew-up drinking raw milk and he's just fine. In fact he's better than fine. Good teeth

Omega-3s and eating fish: Weighing the risks

2007-07-24T09:12:00.001-07:00

It may be the biggest irony in food nutrition: Fish is one of the best sources of Omega-3 fatty acids, a heart-healthy answer to cardiovascular disease, the No. 1 killer of Americans.But fish also contain traces of mercury and other pollutants that are particularly damaging to the neurological development of fetuses and young children.That is enough to make some parents and pregnant women cut

Raw Milk Health Advisories: June 2007

2007-06-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

June 15, 2007Consumers who have purchased raw milk from Piney Ridge Farm in New Bethlehem any time after May 21 should discard it immediately due to the risk of Listeria monocytogenes contamination, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.StoryJune 5, 2007Consumers who purchased raw milk from the Green Acres Jersey Farm in Lebanon County (Pennsylvania) any time after May 8 should discard it

Omega-3s linked to stronger bones

2007-06-01T09:17:00.000-07:00

Increasing omega-3 fatty acid intake in the diet at the expense of omega-6 fatty acids may boost bone health and reduce the risk of osteoporosis.More hereTechnorati Tags: health, diet, omega-3, omega-3s,

Good News on Raw Milk

2007-05-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

Derived from ScienceDailyKey findings:Raw Milk reduces the incidence of hayfever and asthmaEvidence suggests that this protection is maintained after boiling the raw milkNo evidence for decreased incidence of eczema with raw milk consuptionRaw Milk still not recommended by researcher due to other health issuesA recent study of 14,893 children aged between five and 13 in Austria, Germany, the

Raw Milk Health Advisories

2007-05-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

Raw Milk Health Advisories:Having seen about eight health warnings in the past two months with respect to raw milk I thought it might be a good service to start keeping track of when and where such warnings are making it into the news. Started May 5, 2007.May 10, 2007Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issues health warning about contaminated raw milk.Consumers who have purchased raw milk

Health Points: April 14th to 20th

2007-04-20T15:18:00.000-07:00

This week a couple of article that were published in Science look interesting:A new study show that the genetic risk factors for Autism are greater than previously thought.Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with AutismScience 20 April 2007:Vol. 316. no. 5823, pp. 445 - 449This of course does not mean that there are not epigenetic, environmental, or infectious factors involved in

Low Sugar Coconut Ice Cream

2007-04-11T18:45:00.000-07:00

So I'm not up on the relative health benefits of coconut milk[1*,2*]and coconut oil though there are those out there going gaga for it (and those out there who have other ideas) It seems that there might be an association between a certain constituent molecule in coconut oil, lauric acid [1,2*], and health benefits.Despite those statements, coconut milk is very high in saturated fat so I would

Omega-3s: More on ALA:EPA:DHA

2007-04-08T05:03:00.000-07:00

This is a reply to this comment left by Maikeru on the post Omega-3 Fats: The Right Ratio.Hi Maikeru,The ALA/DHA/EPA question is an important one for those interested in improving their omega-3 intake. ALA is found primarily in plants such as greens and some seeds while the other two are derived primarily from fish and land animals.There is an interesting book on the subject called The Queen of

School education fails to improve condom use

2007-04-03T14:25:00.001-07:00

An interesting study based in Scotland that showed no increase in condom use even when students knowledge of condoms was improved. There persisted, despite education efforts, a sense that illness would not occur and thus condoms were thought not useful. clipped from www.sciencedirect.comSchool-based education

Response to Dave's comment @ CP blog

2007-04-01T05:15:00.000-07:00

This is in response to Dave over at the "Complete Patient Blog" on a recent posted entitled "Chewing on a Mother's Real Message About Raw Milk, and the Risks of Dramatic Stories"First, the notion that 1/3 of milk-related illness is due to raw milk...Those of you wishing to believe that statistic probably cannot be dissuaded, but the first time I saw it in print, I tried to track it down to root

Raw Milk - Waiting

2007-03-29T06:05:00.000-07:00

SummaryRaw milk contains compounds that fight infectious agents.There is also a class of compounds that seem to promote positive immunity response.The benefit to humans is not established.One should avoid using one study to draw broad conclusions.There is not enough information to make a proper risk analysis Objective The objective of this investigation is to research the findings of the power

Raw Milk - The Investigation Starts

2007-03-26T11:46:00.000-07:00

My wife has started to consider buying raw milk from a local dairy and of course the first thing I felt was concern. Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized so that any pathogen that might make it into the milk then makes it on into the consumer of the milk. So why go for raw milk then? Well there is a movement of people who believe that pasteurization destroys the beneficial aspects of

Asthma & the Elite Athlete

2007-03-02T04:39:00.001-08:00

In an interesting article that was recently published in the scientific journal Sports Medicine entitled "Do Inhaled [beta]2-Agonists have an Ergogenic Potential in Non-Asthmatic Competitive Athletes?" I learned a few interesting tidbits.Asthma is more common among elite athletes than the general populationAsthma is more common among endurance athletes (like long distance runners) and

Omega-3 Fats: The Right Ratio

2007-02-03T16:26:00.000-08:00

There has been some interest of late in omega-3 fatty acids or, as some people know them by, fish oils. This is due to the interesting things that science has found about these oils.First and foremost as almost anyone who has grown-up in the last 40 years knows, fat is bad for you and should be avoided at all cost. WRONG!Not only are some fats good for you but some are essential. That's right,

Good Fat: Omega-3s and Your Health

2007-02-01T04:29:00.001-08:00

Omega-3s The three different types Omega-3 Definitions ALA (sometimes LNA): alpha-linolenic acid EPA: eicosapentaenoic acid DHA: docosahexaenoic acid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3 Omega-3 fatty acids which are important in human nutrition are: alpha-linolenic acid (18:3, ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5, EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (22:

Memory Moments

2006-12-28T04:26:00.001-08:00

Sleep (~7 hours) helps with consolidation of memories (placement of memories in "long term storage" within their meaningful context.)There maybe wakeful moments when memory consolidation occurs as well. The link that sleep helps with memory has been getting some more attention in the media recently. This is due to some recent science work that has shown a strong link between getting a decent

Turmeric and cancer

2006-12-26T10:47:00.001-08:00

Cancer can be a really difficult disease to fight using conventional methods. The cells in your body are in a state of flux. They are constantly dieing-off (senescence) and being replaced with new cells. The body needs to replace with new cells though only those that have been lost through cell death. Sometimes though that is not what happens.Cancer cells are cells that have a faulty mechanism

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2006-12-24T08:08:00.000-08:00

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