health

How Many World Cup Heart Attacks Were There?

12 July 2010

I think it was in the excellent book The Great Cholesterol Con where I first read that football and heart attacks were linked. That claim is backed up by this piece of research done when France won the 1998 world cup. In which it says: Instead of about 33 deaths a day in the five [...]

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Should we drink Raw / Unpasteurized Milk?

27 July 2008

This year I came across people advocating the drinking of raw milk for health reasons. Just to be clear this is milk that is unpasteurised (or unpasteurized if you’re American). The argument is that pasteurisation (heating the milk to 71.6ºC for 15 seconds) damages the milk and destroys some nutrients and fatty acids etc and [...]

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