Take home message Interest in live bacteria Is the die cast? If you believe the title of an article in the journal Trends in Food Science, it certainly seems so: ‘The future is fermented: Microbial diversity is an important source …
Take home message Plant-based, essential unsaturated fatty acids The plant produces some essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (Eng.: PUFA), namely linoleic acid, C18:2 n-6 (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid, C18:3 n-3 (ALA). As humans, we ingest these fatty acids through diet. Both …
Take home message How to find out, what people ate since the Stone Age? When did milk become part of their diet and to what extent? How fast did milk consumption develop across Europe? There are several methods to gain …
Take home message Changing dietary fat Due to (mis)interpretation by nutrition researchers like Ancel Keys (1904-2004), in the 1950s and 1960s, our fat consumption changed dramatically. Mortality from cardiovascular disease among middle-aged white American men was the main reason for …
Take home message Whole milk or not? There is regular ambiguity again, whether milk consumption contributes to health and mortality. A long-term study of Swedish women who took part in annual mammography screening also looked at the relationship with their …
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 …
