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One Type of Milk May Cause Diabetes. The Other Doesn’t. Which Do You Drink?
A1 versus A2 milk has been a media "fringe" story for much of this decade. The publication of Devil in the Milk and reports from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority last year placed it in the spotlight. The key question is whether this is just a beat-up, or are there really major public health issues relating to type 1 diabetes, heart disease, symptoms of autism, and general milk intolerance? The way to answer this question is to go back to the science and look at the evidence. The A2 story started in 1993 when Professor Bob Elliott from Auckland asked whether there was a difference between the milk the Masai people of Kenya drink and the milk drunk in Western countries. (more.....)http://www.chelseagreen.com/content/index.php?p=1837
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As researchers unravel the biochemical reasons for most heart attacks, the advice for avoiding them is changing.
If last week's column convinced you that surgery may not be the best way to avoid a heart attack or sudden cardiac death, the next step is finding out what can work as well or better to protect your heart It is not that the old advice, like eating a low-fat diet or exercising vigorously, was bad advice; it was based on the best available evidence of the time and can still be very helpful. But as researchers unravel the biochemical reasons for most heart attacks, the advice for avoiding them is changing. And, you'll be happy to know, the new suggestions for both diet and exercise are less rigid. The food is tasty, easy to prepare and relatively inexpensive, and you don't have to sweat for an hour a day to reap the benefits of exercise. The well-established risk factors for heart disease remain intact: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking,diabetes, abdominal obesity and sedentary living. But behind them a relatively new factor has emerged that may be even more important as a cause of heart attacks than, say, high blood levels of artery-damaging cholesterol. That factor is C-reactive protein, or CRP, a blood-borne marker of inflammation that, along with coagulation factors, is now increasingly recognized as the driving force behind clots that block blood flow to the heart. Yet patients are rarely tested for CRP, even if they already have heart problems. (more.....)http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13brod.html
Many measures are probably familiar: not smoking, controlling cholesteroland blood pressure, exercising regularly and staying at a healthy weight. But some newer suggestions may surprise you.
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