Forest soil is hot, but why? The Netherlands is going to copy Finland. Finland is already doing it, sending children into the forest. Dutch researchers would like to see children come into more contact with the soil (earth), to train …
In the early 20th century, i.e. around 1900, doctors were convinced that raw milk was important for growing children. The discussion was nipped in the bud by the negatives of raw milk, starting with TB. And rightly so, much milk was unsafe …
… and more drastically the higher you heat it. What are the consequences? Take home message For food safety reasons, raw milk is heated before cosumption: pasteurised or sterilised. Although we have long been led to believe, that heating ‘hardly …
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 …
