Surely there must be a gut-friendly food that can help reduce the risk of asthma and allergies.
So suggests the current issue of Fortune Magazine, its Food Issue, which has an article entitled A Food Revolutionin Your Gut? Feeding the Microbiome. (The actual article only seems to be in the print magazine; this related version is online.)
The article focuses heavily on Danone, the European food company big into yogurt (Dannon being its U.S. brand). Fortune said Danone currently has some 100 clinical trials and (is) collaborating with more than 40 academic or commercial partners in the area now referred to as microbiota research.
Because gut bacteria are so complex, says the article, the industry is focusing on the baby gut. Infants pick up their first microbes in the birth canal, and in early life mothers milk is like a microbiome starter kitrich with the complex fibers that feed those microbes. Research suggests that these early-acquired bugs are critical for healthy development: Babies born preterm or via Cesarean section, and who are in general exposed to antibiotics early on, have been found to be at higher risk for health problems like asthma, allergies, and obesity later in life. A product that could reduce that risk would be a powerful force in the $50 billion global formula market.
Fortune should have been more preciseit should have said, A proprietary product that could reduce that risk As we know, there is already a natural product out there that has been shown in large-scale European research to protect against asthma and allergies in children.
But raw milk has little value to a corporation like Danone because it cant control the supply, and the pricing, of the product, since theres nothing proprietary about a product thats been used for 5,000 years to help people stay healthy.
Fortune reports that Danone has moved ahead with a formula laden with synbioticsa mix of prebiotic fiber and probiotic bacteria, in Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand, and soon to other parts of the world. The product hasnt been used long enough for Danone to have data on whether it helps protect against asthma and allergies, though it has been moving aggressively to make the connection.
Based on what the researchers in the Gabriela project discovered, Danone may be way off basethey concluded that it likely wasnt the prebiotics or probiotics in raw milk that conferred protection, but rather a whey protein that is damaged by the heat of pasteurization. I doubt such a technicality would prevent Danone from trumpeting all kinds of health benefits from its new infant formula.
Danone isnt the only corporation hot on food products to strengthen the gut, according to Fortune. General Mills has an institute engaged in microbiome research (and) has filed a patent for a fiber mix that ameliorates inflammatory bowel disease, says Fortune. DuPont and Monsanto are feverishly studying the micro biomes of soil and plants in hopes of increasing agricultural yields .
Funny, I thought we had some old-fashioned tools for doing all those thingsmore commonly known as fermented foods.
My wife and I will be attending our 4th IMGC conference this year in Sydney Australia this fall. At that conference all you Hear is how damaging heat is to milk and how damn impossible it is to try and replicate breast milk. I just sit back and absorb it all knows that the secret of raw milk safety lays in the conditions of how the cows are fed, kept, milked and the food safety programs and testing. None if the PhDs are allowed to study anything other than reductionist science in their mandated directives to find the good stuff in raw milk and put it back into pasteurized milk.
As smart as they are…. They are the dumbest group I have ever observed. The must only study what their grants tell them to study and nothing else. Big dairy grants totally conflict with the directions that research should go. Stupid is as stupid does. I never fail to stand up and call the emperor naked at this conference just for good measure. The path to better baby food is raw living milk …. First from moms breast then from clean safe raw milk
As an aside…. The Claravale recall must be devastating…. I know what it’s like to be shut down. The stress is horrible and hard on every one involved.
Mankind would be so better served if grant money was dedicated to investigation of truth with out restrictions….. Kind of like nasa research in the 1960s that established the basis for innovation…brought us Velcro, the GPS, the internet and the like!!
I encourge parents with babies who were born c-section or babies who cannot be breastfed for one reason or another to add this type of yogurt to the baby formula bottle – very good for the gut of that baby. It helps cut down on the damage from some of the crap the corporate manufacturers stuff into a can of baby formula these days. Makes my stomach turn when I read the ingredient list. Even the “organic” baby formulas are chock full of synthetic junky vitamins and stuff like DHA and ARA from heaven knows what source.
I know that many here are not fans of Mike Adams and his approach, but this was written by someone else and seems like food for thought before you jump off that cliff.
Why would so many people jump ship on the potential perennial benefits of real milk for young and old in exchange for a perceived lesser risk substitute that essentially boils down (pun intended) to just another corporate food product? Is the almond lobby that powerful?
http://www.naturalnews.com/049986_almond_milk_carageenan_ingredients.html
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article18716937.html
I guess cows and grass need water too, and would like to see someone compare the usage ratios.
If almond milk is just 2% of the total drink, what is the other 98% besides carrageenan? And what is the percentage of that whopping 2% almond content that is irradiated in the process?
And then there’s soy milk, another wonderful creation of mother nature when soy plants have babies… right? Isn’t 98% (my estimate) of soy in the USA and maybe the world a GMO product? What is the contamination rate of glyphosate residues and how high is the average concentration?
Oh wait, now that you’ve noticed and asked your government may come to the rescue eventually if not blocked by those rats known as tptb. How many rats must die before real change occurs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/17/us-food-agriculture-glyphosate-idUSKBN0N82K020150417
http://www.anh-usa.org/feds-to-reinvent-school-lunches-with-flavored-skim-milk-full-of-toxic-additives/
Rather than telling us what to eat, government at all levels should instead stop gagging free speech about nutrition
Here’s something to chew on: http://complete-health-and-happiness.com/3-reasons-you-shouldnt-buy-almond-milk/
Includes a recipe similar to mine. I strain mine through a bag made from hemp (which I ordered through http://www.sproutpeople.com ) and that works very well.
And our gubmint doesn’t trust the people (you know, with the NSA working overtime and all to spy on us)??? Gee, I think that works the other way around, too. I have zero trust in this country these days and our current president isn’t helping matters. He better be careful or pretty soon his nose will be as big as his ears.