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By: Jo-Lynne

Jo-Lynne — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:48:09 +0000

Leah, so interesting. Thanks for sharing. My mom and I were talking about my great grandmother who lived on lard and butter and whole milk and all that stuff. She lived to be 94 and her heart just wouldn’t stop beating. Really makes you go hmmmmm…

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:51:12 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this post all day. Went to Trader Joes to stock up on my Irish Kerrygold butter. Love that stuff! Then called my Mema (grandmother) on the way home to see how she was doing…she has some skin cancers removed yesterday. She ends up telling me that she had a whole body scan and has no cancer (besides the little bit of skin cancer spot on her arms)and is healthy. At 84. We end up talking about how life was when she was little and what she used to eat. Of course her family farmed and grew/made almost all thier own food. I asked if she drank raw milk. Of course…and made thier own butter, cream and clabber. Clabber? So I had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clabber_(food)

I have it on good opinion that is makes the best biscuits you ever tasted. This is all very interesting to me. Wish I could travel back and have dinner with them!

By: Keri

Keri — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:36:40 +0000

Wonderful post! I have been really researching all this lately, and couldn’t agree more with your thoughts!

By: Stephen Guy-Clarke

Stephen Guy-Clarke — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:47:59 +0000

Hi Jo-Lynne,
Sure diet is important which may or may not include cows milk, the big point is how we might develop high cholesterol in the first place and the first question to ask is – so where does cholesterol come from?

The answer lies in two sources, derived from the diet or derived from synthesis in the tissue, chiefly the liver. In the diet cholesterol comes solely from foods of animal origin (egg yolk, liver and fatty meats, cheese). Around 80% of total body cholesterol is manufactured in the liver, which means that only 15-20% of cholesterol comes from your diet. Cholesterol travels from the liver through the bloodstream to the various tissues in the body by means of a special class of protein molecules called lipoproteins. The cells take what they need, and any excess remains in the bloodstream until other lipoproteins pick it up for transport back to the liver.

Cholesterol made by the liver for tissues is transported in the largest of lipoprotein particles (very low density lipoproteins, VLDL). In the plasma, these are transformed to smaller lipoproteins (intermediate density lipoproteins, IDLP, and low density lipoproteins, LDL) by the action of enzymes. Cholesterol delivered directly to tissues is in the LDL form. Once inside the tissue cells, cholesterol is utilised for the variety of functions previously outlined. The excess cholesterol is packed in the smallest of lipoprotein particles (high density lipoprotein, HDL) and transported back to the liver for processing.

Hope this helps!

By: Casual Friday Every Day

Casual Friday Every Day — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:10:22 +0000

Thank you for this post, Jo-Lynn. More people need to be educated on the myths about food.

Nell

By: dina

dina — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:55:03 +0000

I think what people forget is that skim or low fat milk has LOADS more lactose – it’s watery, yes, but maybe more appropriately labelled as SUGAR water!

And I wholeheartedly support (from personal experience, research, etc.) that eating full fat, natural foods truly does bring a higher level off saiety.

Oh for our own milk cow! Or even dairy goat. In my state it’s illegal to purchase raw milk, and farmers are afraid to share what they’ve got, if they’ve got any.

My great-grandparents were amazing people. He was a dairyman, she a professional cook. They were 100% into REAL whole foods – even when their peers were following enmasse the fake (and cheaper – which was a big deal Depression Era) food bandwagon. Bless their sweet hearts for getting it that real foods were where it was at!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:03:44 +0000

Nina Planck’s book completed the conversion of my eating habits which started with The Fat Fallacy by Dr. Will Clower. LOVED Real Food. I felt free and clear about eating after reading it.

Thanks for this blog about milk. I was raised on raw milk and am a big proponent of getting people to understand the benefits of milk (raw milk in particular, but pastuerized whole milk is better than 2% or skim).

Now that I know you’re here I’ll be stopping by again!

By: Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Kelly the Kitchen Kop — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:39:05 +0000

Hey Jo-Lynne,
Thanks for the links to my blog! This post and the comments have been fun. It’s been a long time now, but when I first heard that butter and whole milk were GOOD for me, it was SO hard to wrap my brain around it. Now that I know it’s true and have lived this way for years, I’m just SAD that “they” (doctors mostly) don’t know this stuff and instead tell their patients to eat low-fat crap…frustrating.
Thanks for getting the word out more and more!
Kelly