… provided it is mainly consumed in full-fat cheese. Take home message Dementia as a spectre for the ageing population In the fight against lifestyle diseases, dementia is a high priority. For many, it is a horror to no longer …
There is milk fat and then there is milk fat. Much of the fat we consume through dairy products is determined by what the cows eat; whether it is summer or winter, whether the cows graze or not, and whether the cows are pushed to the highest possible milk yield by feeding them extra fat in the form of palm oil. The image below illustrates the shifts in milk fat composition, and was created based …
Take home message Making good cheese is a skill Gouda cheese is made from (raw) milk, rennet and starter culture. The starter culture converts milk sugar into lactic acid (= fermentation), while the rennet causes certain proteins (casein proteins) to …
Take home message Louis Pasteur and heating The concept of “pasteurisation” is attributed to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), although as early as the beginning of the 19th century, there were people who advocated heating milk to make it safe for consumption (Westhoff, 1978). Nowadays, milk is heated before consumption almost everywhere. The combination of temperature and time determines whether a product has been heated sufficiently to be classified as safe. For example, at start pasteurisation of milk was …
The word “bacteriology” did not exist in the early 1880s. With people such as Louis Pasteur (France) and Robert Koch (Germany), a new field of study emerged. Between 1870 and 1890, many bacteria were discovered, described and given names. Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and the cholera bacterium (Vibrio cholerae). The same applies to Escherichia coli, named after its discoverer Theodor Escherich (1857-1911). Bacteriology opened up a completely new window to observe the world …
Without rules, you are powerless and lost, whether you are a human being, an animal or even the earth itself. Without agreements, you cannot trust other people. Suddenly changing agreements makes you an unreliable fellow human being or government. Rules …
Take home message In the past, milk was obtained from the farmer in the village, warm, every day if necessary. For people living in cities, this became a problem at the end of the 19th century. The distance to the city …
Take home message It is an age-old contradiction: bacteria or environment, nature or nurture, genetics or epigenetics/nutrition/lifestyle? Where do you start when it comes to controlling infectious diseases? Diseases such as tuberculosis have been brought under control in Western countries …
A wolf on the Dutch region ‘the Treek’ and a child who has been bitten. Imagine it was your child. A chicken egg from your own garden, where your chickens are free to roam, and your PFAS intake rises to …
In Bavaria, the Kompetenzzentrum für Ernährung (KErn) has published a series of articles in German on the pros and cons of milk consumption. In addition to animal welfare, the articles also discuss milk alternatives, health and raw milk. KErn has …
