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Monday Mission: Know Your Food

April 25th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get to know your food a little more closely. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (or more?) My kids on a visit to a special event at the farm where we occasionally buy meat and eggs. If the recent media coverage of bacteria in commercial [...]

Everybody’s Afraid of Something

February 3rd, 2011 · 110 Comments · KS lifestyle

When I was a teenager, I religiously mopped up the grease from pepperoni on my pizza and filled a napkin with it by squeezing my weekly Sunday brunch traditional kielbasa to death. One could say I was afraid of fat. Last month my sister-in-law looked at my pile of discarded pepperoni and asked me if [...]

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The Real Story of Homogenized Milk, Powdered Milk, Skim Milk and Oxidized Cholesterol

June 23rd, 2010 · 71 Comments · Science of Nutrition

Milk has been through a lot in the past 100 years. First it was subjected to pasteurization, then homogenization, then oxidation. Will the -ations ever end? The question for us milk drinkers is of course: when does a change cause a nutritional problem? Some say that pasteurization already kills too many healthy enzymes; see more [...]

What Kind of Milk Should I Buy?

June 22nd, 2010 · 104 Comments · Science of Nutrition, What to Buy

Even among the tangled webs of nutrition science and speculation (can you say “soaking grains”?), safe milk has got to be one of the most difficult. I bet I have more people dash a quick email or leave an unrelated comment at a post to ask about safe milk than any other food. Why all [...]

Monday Mission: Examine Your Milk Source

June 21st, 2010 · 63 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to examine, and hopefully improve, the milk your family drinks. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides (Leap of Faith?) From store brand skim to fresh milk from a local farm and everything in between, the vast array of milk choices is dizzying. There are those who [...]