Whole Foods Market 1: "Organic Consumers Assn charges the US’ main distributors of organic foods, Whole Foods and United Natural Foods, with strong arm intimidation tactics, after OCA demanded they stop marketing conventional chemical foods as natural."

Whole Foods Market 2:  Whole Foods STILL "sells a lot of junk" but now they have dropped a very popular and "real" health food, raw milk, from their shelves.

NYT: Raw milk becomes contentious.

"Beware" raw milk...Warning from FDA.

Fatty liver: it's not just for grown-ups anymore.

Doctors shift to health centers; away from private practice.

Facial aging is more than skin deep. Jaw angle changes adding to aging appearance.

Could your gut bacteria make you overweight?

How to prevent antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Vitamin D.

Vitamin D, Vitamin A and Cancer. 

Exposure to fast food can make us impatient!

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Does Cholesterol really matter?

Audio: Author Nora Gedgaudas welcomes back Colleen Dunseth, educational director for the Nutritional Therapy Association to talk about Type 1 Diabetes and how certain nutritional principles and strategies can make a major difference in how one manages this disease. It may not be what you think you know!

Anti-Aging:  The roadblock that is the FDA.

Aging and Degeneration of the Innate Immune System 

Video: Doug Kaufmann spends 30 minutes on nutritional approaches to women's issues. Click on Thursday under the video box. (This link is good for just a few days.)

Mediterranean diet tied to fertility treatment success.

Dr. Michael R. Eades, an M.D. who blogs about nutritional science, presents his 2009 Bestseller list of books purchased via his blog. Top on the list is The Vegetarian Myth. Dr. Eades writes: 
The number one winner going away was Lierre Kieth’s brilliant The Vegetarian Myth.  If you haven’t read it, grab a copy ASAP.  For those of you who don’t know, Lierre was recently the victim of an assault at a San Francisco reading.  Masked thugs came out from behind the stage and smashed her in the head and face with pies laced with cayenne pepper.  After the assault took place, while Lierre was trying to get the burning pepper out of her eyes, the audience (of mainly vegetarians) cheered.  It was truly disgusting.  Richard Nikoley and Tom Naughton reported on the assault here and here.  Jimmy Moore has a  interview with Lierre about the attack here. Tom Naughton proposes a rationale for such behavior here.

Longevity: MORE health benefits of coffee.

Six more reasons waistlines are expanding.

Epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency sweeping the world.

Just walking three times a week slashes death rate risk by 60 percent.

The Last Supper has been "super-sized." "The food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper have grown larger - in line with our own super-sizing of meals, say obesity experts."

A Low-Carber struggles with hyperinsulinemia. More here and here.

No more Pepsi at school?

Wealth and Longevity.

The slow rise of the Robot Surgeon.

Deadly Fungi: Over the past 20 years, pathogenic fungi have developed growing resistance to anti-fungal drugs. This stimulated a strong demand for more effective drugs and led to some successful research at Syracuse University.

Meanwhile: A quicker, cheaper and more accurate test for deadly Aspergillus fumigatus fungal infections in patients with damaged or suppressed immune systems has been established.

Coffee: 8 cups a day was associated with significantly reduced levels of inflammatory markers?

Make another pot!: That cup of java may be a healthy start to the day AND it may keep the heart beating normally (access to the full stories requires registration) 

The flu season has gone missing, and experts are trying to figure out what happened.

High fructose corn syrup is uniquely fattening. In other words, say good-bye to the incorrect idea that a calorie is just a calorie. 

Drug commercial spoof. Hat tip: Augie.




SPECIAL RAW MILK ROUND-UP

Raw Milk 1: An open letter to an angry lady.

Raw Milk 2: A Testimony of raw milk's healing power.

Raw Milk 3: Dr. Tom Cowan M.D. on raw milk's medical benefits.

Raw Milk 4: Whole Foods Market drops raw milk.

Raw Milk 5: Organic Pastures Dairy prepares for life after Whole Foods.

Raw Milk 6: Milk cure experiment "how-to's."

Raw Milk 7: Max Kane's :Milk Men" movie trailer:

Got allergies? Why consuming LOCAL honey may be a real help in getting rid of them.

High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring, Research Suggests
 
Doug Kaufmann of Know the Cause fame hosts a twice weekly live webcast here. Viewers may phone in and speak directly with Doug. The webcasts are each Tuesday at 3:00PM PDT and Thursday at 5:00PM PDT.

Can eating genetically modified food lower your fertility? Old link but required reading for those who think GM foods are safe.

The CDC says babies are not getting enough Vitamin D.

Exercise reduces depression risk in young women.

Oil pulling -- a detox method with ancient roots.

Food, nutrition, health and the pioneering work of Weston Price. This article is a must read; both detailed and concise.

Red Menace:  Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation. “90 percent of the world’s wheat has little or no protection against the Ug99 race of P. graminis.  Doug Kaufmann says repeatedly that the worlds grain supply is susceptible to fungus (and not just susceptible, but usually infected) which when eaten, invades US -- as in you and I. Not only that, but grains break down into sugar in the body which then FEEDS the fungi that may already be in our body. Grains, even whole grains, are NOT the health food conventional thinking says it is.