Archive for January, 2009
Ronald Krauss, Part 2
Gary Taubes helps us to understand the implications between small, dense LDL and heart disease. He describes the low-density lipoprotein (the “LDL”) as a balloon. It has a single protein known as apo B for short, that serves as the structural foundation of the balloon and holds it together. It hs an outer membrane that [...]
In: Cholesterol, Diet
Intro to Ronald Krause
Albert Einstein reportedly said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.” As far as diet and nutrition goes, Ancel Keys started us off by saying that dietary fat acts on serum cholesterol in our blood to produce heart disease. The victim was total cholesterol at least until they found out that [...]
In: Cholesterol, Diet, Disease
Pig Love, the Conclusion
Pig love is the soulful opposite of the divinely inspired avoidance that Moslems and Jews display towards swine. Many culinary traditions including the Euro-American and Chinese esteem the flesh and fat of pigs. Pig love is something else. It includes raising pigs to be a member of the family, sleeping next to them, talking to [...]
In: Diet, Populations
Pig Love, Part 2
The solution to the riddle of the pig requires us to adopt a much broader definition of public health. This must include the essential processes by which animals, plants, and people manage to coexist in viable natural and cultural communities. Pig farming may have been a threat to the integrity of the basic cultural and [...]
In: Diet, Populations
Pig Love, the Introduction
One of my favorite anthropologists, Marvin Harris, is at it again. This time he focuses on the pig. Everyone knows examples of apparently irrational food habits. Chinese like dog meat but despise cow milk. We like cow milk but we won’t eat dogs. Some tribes in Brazil like ants but despise venison. And so it [...]
In: Diet, Populations
