I think I have just found the yoghurt of my dreams - Rachel's Organic Bio-Live Wicked Wholemilk yoghurt with a choice of flavours: toffee with fudge pieces, maple syrup, apple and butterscotch, and golden honey.
I don't like all that low fat shit the supermarkets keep plugging, but I do know that bio-live is good, because of the friendly bacteria.
Yo! to Rachel
Organic milk contains two-thirds more Omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic.
We ♥ Omega-3
We also love cholesterol. there was an article in the New Statesman a couple of weeks ago, by Margaret Cook, a cardiac specilaist:
A high blood cholesterol is an ominous finding, and in many information sources on the internet you will find advice (usually Bupa-sponsored) about how to lower it through dietary changes and medication......Vast sums of money were spent on trials designed to show that adjusting diets to lower blood cholesterol would lower the risk of heart attacks. Alas, the research did not come up with the expected results. Cholesterol levels did not drop as expected; heart-attack rates were not reduced...
...The market for statin (cholesterol-lowering) drugs is flourishing on misinformation. There is ample evidence that they may lower death rates from heart attacks in some people, but cause damage in other systems, and possibly deaths from other causes. Recognised dangers are memory loss and mental confusion, increased risk of breast cancer in young women, liver disease and heart muscle damage by interfering with the all-important enzyme CQ10...
...Cholesterol has a role in enhancing immune function, and a raised level seems to be beneficial in the elderly. Clinical trials on drugs must have a narrow focus to germinate results, an approach which works conveniently for companies sponsoring their own statins...
...It is time for cholesterol to be rehabilitated as a chemical vital to functioning - one that we adjust too radically at our peril.
It could be a new put-down as diet-obsessed thin people with limited brain-capacity "Ah yes, but you're too thin to be intelligent." I think the wording needs to be snappier. (Not that I have a blanket prejudice against thin people, some can't help it, it's genetic, or their metabolisms or something.It's just those that brag about their faddish diets and how much weight they've lost and are too stupid to know how stupid they are.)
