raw milk

Paleo Diet Explained in a Simple Video

6 January 2011

I just saw this video over at Mads Jacobsen’s blog which does a great job of explaining the Paleo diet approach: WPvideo 1.10 Personally I mostly follow the Paleo diet where possible (in Zone Diet proportions), but I do add milk and dairy. The reason is, we did evolve to drink milk, your mum’s milk. [...]

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Raw Milk Discussed on BBC Radio 4

17 March 2010

I’ve posted before about Raw Milk (sometimes called Natural Milk, Green Top Milk or Real Milk) but was interested to hear a 15 minute chat about it on BBC Radio 4 today. You can hear the broadcast on BCC iPlayer on the program Thinking Allowed. Start from 15 minutes in.

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Finding Unpasteurised Milk in the UK

10 May 2009

Last year I posted about raw milk (i.e. unpasteurized milk) and discussed whether we should be drinking it. It provoked an interesting response, including from an American anti-raw milk lawyer. I decided to give it a try, but have been somewhat frustrated in my search for a unpasteurised milk supplier (often it’s called “Green Top [...]

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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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