Growing interest for the gut and its microbiome What is a healthy gut? What microbiome belongs to it? How do you steer health, and especially from what age? This kind of research is much needed, because the list of diseases of affluence is growing rapidly. Think of obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, but also the range of intestinal problems (irritable bowel, Crohn’s disease), or colon cancer. There is increasing evidence, that there is a causal relationship …
Take home message Ready-made meals Ultra-processed food (UPF) are the compound packages and sauces you buy ready-made in the supermarket. Not so much the tray of pre-cut and mixed salads, but the ready-to-eat meals; add a little water, just fry …
Take home message Whey, as a cheese by-product, was a waste product, which was returned to the farm for calves, or in mixed farms was fed to pigs. In cheese-making, the milk curdles, and the cheese casein clumps together to …
Side effect of climate change, the consumption of our earth’s resources, as well as the side effects of intensive livestock farming, is that attention is turning to a ‘holistic consciousness’. Let us hope for time. Thinking in (larger) contexts instead …
Take home message Food allergy Food allergy, including milk allergy is based on an immune system, which does not respond properly, and milk is not recognised as food. Instead of a food protein, the immune system only ‘sees’ antigens, bits …
Take home message How important are the first 1,000 days of your life, and do you count from conception or from birth? In any case, it is clear, that it is only after birth as a new human that you …
Take home message The first half of the 20th century saw a great interest in the significance of vitamins for health. Rickets played a role in dark industrial cities like London, and young children developed bone deformities due to lack of vitamin …
Take-home message Lactose intolerance is not lactase non-persistence Complicated word choices due to double negations. The issue is whether and how you can (still) digest lactose from milk products, especially milk, later in life. Lactose tolerance is usually seen as …
Susanne Prescott, immunologist, describes her viewpoint on the necessary reduction of meat consumption in a recent article. Too many people eat too much meat and the earth is going under. However, there is a huge world of interests behind our …
Take home message Six months diet of milk or Coca-Cola? A Danish study (Maersk et al., 2012) looked, how two types of Coke (regular Coca-Cola and Diet Coke) had effects on weight development and physiological and body parameters around Metabolic …
