Welcome to the August 2007 edition of Carnival of Nourishment. Welcome to newbies and good to see you oldbies? again. Enjoy.
Amanda at Rebuild From Depression, shares a great raw milk story about the last remaining gallon of milk from the September 2006 recall at Organic Pastures for E.coli. What to do with the milk? Amanda says, ‘In the poll I’m running, oddly, the winner seems to be “make a custard” (which requires cooking). I lean towards the Alex Avery idea, but it looks like the milk will be the center of a one year false recall anniversary party and consumed by a few raw milk crazies like Mark McAfee and me.’ I loved this post. I love this blog. It’s the only one I read regularly that isn’t on NourishedMagazine.com.au at the moment, thanks Amanda.
Christian Bachmann at MedJournalWatch tells us how Mother nature supplies the baby with all it needs, even with bacteria for a healthy gut flora with his Probiotics in Mother’s Milk. Thanks Christian, you may be interested to know that cesarean babies are likely to suffer digestive problems later in life because they are inoculated with hospital bacteria rather than vaginal bacteria.
Fit Buff, shares a great explanation of the Glycemic Index Recommending we concentrate on Low GI foods which don’t send you body into a sugar peak and insulin trough. Of course, you can always get your energy from fat, a much more efficient way to consume calories as your body can use it straight away, without the insulin shock. If you’re worried about eating fat, read Lori Lipinski’s Taking the Fear out of Eating Fat.
Veggie Chick, tells us about her green bean adventure. I hope her vegetarianism includes raw, grass fed dairy products, without which her diet will be deficient of B6, B12, A, D, K and probably E.
Lastly, Conan Stevens has some great advice about Body building. Mainly, “Don’t Eat Crap“. But there are a few other simple pointers. Thanks Conan.
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A Super Hero and one of many who have realised their true calling as saviors of humanity, healers of our connection with Nature and creators of Heaven on Earth. The Nourisher's gift is the re-spiritualisation of the 'process of recreation' we call eating. Mother of three Super Heroes in training and wife to her God incarnate, The Nourisher hails from the place of feminine healing, Byron Bay, Australia. She gathers together Life Creators from all over the globe at NourishedMagazine.com.au
Aug 4th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Hey Joanne!
Thanks for including our article. I’ll be sure to submit more in the future, and you’re welcome to submit to our weekly carnival as well:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_1766.html
Aug 5th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Thanks for including my article (although my name isn’t Veggie Chick - the blog’s name is Veggie Chic).
I do eat a limited amount of dairy, but there are plenty of vegans out there who eat well-thought-out, healthy diets that do not include dairy. Cow milk is not essential for a healthy diet; indeed it can be quite unhealthy when consumed in large amounts.
Aug 5th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Awww, thanks Joanne. :)
Aug 5th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Jul, sorry I got your name wrong. I must have read it wrong. Did you mean chic as in ‘cool’, ’stylish’, ‘fashionable’? I agree it is fashionable right now to avoid dairy products but there are virtually no modern scientific studies for unpasteurised, grass fed organic milk, only pasteurised factory farmed milk. There is however a long history, 30,000 years, of humans using animal milk for their main sustenance. African and Caucasian people alike.
You will not get the B12 you need in a vegetarian diet unless you eat raw animal food such as dairy or fish (an animal in my eyes but anyway). B6 Vit A, D, E and K are very hard to come by also. Your ability to garner these vitamins is quite diminished when consuming cooked (read dead) dairy food.
I know lots of cool, stylish and chic people claim they are vegans and healthy but no long term study has been recorded of such eating style. Humans have simply never done it.
Aug 5th, 2007 at 9:00 am
And to get a little more crazy with milk, there have been doctors who have treated patients using diets exclusively of milk — a milk fast. This sort of diet was pretty popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s though I know there were some clinics in other countries. (It seems I’ve seen reference to a Russian book from the late 1800s or early 1900s.) This site has free digital versions of two “milk diet” books from the early 1900s:
http://www.milk-diet.com/
I actually did the diet out of curiosity in early 2006 and had some good outcomes. I wasn’t suffering from anything in particular, but my thyroid had been sluggish and it was a little easier to lose weight after the fast. I didn’t need sunglasses anymore — the brightness was fine for my eyes under most circumstances. I didn’t get travel sick as I had all my life.
Who knows how or why the milk diet had these particular effects in my case. But the general philosophy is that the liquid nature of the diet allows your body to rest while the nutrients in the milk (and many other benefits) work on rebuilding glands and organs.
Even with this big pitch for milk, I agree that milk is not necessary for human health. Apparently I disagree on the “harmful in large amounts” since I lived on it for a month. It was Mark McAfee’s milk, however. :)
Just FYI, I started on the diet today again. There’s a whole back story there that I should post.
Amanda
Aug 5th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Some can do milk in larger ammounts! others can´t!
some can only do raw milk -others can only do butter/ghee -it is really a personally matter!
I can do all kinds of milk , cheese and in rather large amounts
- while my daughter only can tolerate ghee, butter, fresh cheese like ricotta, feta and mozzeralla- and small amounts of really fatty creme fraise or cream. We have tried raw milk- but it doesn´t matter- and she doesn´t mind…
Aug 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Agree, I’ve been known to do a 4 week raw milk and sourdough rye fast - fantastic!
BTW, I’ve just made raw butter for the first time ( uncultured this time) is there any use for the resultant buttermilk sans all the good stuff. Also, despite this being from pastured cows it turned out pretty pale yellow - even paler than the biodynamic butter I normally get from B-D farm Paris creek which is low temp pasteurised and also from pastured cows. Does it therefore stand that the Paris creek butter would have more vit A and therefore be better, or does the rawness offset that?
And - source for high vitamin butter oil?
Thanks, Nicole
in Adelaide
Aug 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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Aug 17th, 2007 at 12:13 am
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