If you're eating meat or getting milk from a healthy, pasture-raised cow that's eating live organic matter, it's potentially one of the most nutritious foods. You can really tell when you're drinking unhealthy milk if you go back to conventionally farmed dairy. The book talks a lot about ansel keys and the research on saturated fat and cholesterol. There is obviously some link between high LDL particle count and coronary artery disease but going on.
What I learned from What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle.
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(1:25) Nutritional Differences in Organic vs. Conventional Foods
(4:09) The Effects of Plowing on Food Quality
(8:10) Why Glyphosate Might Be Killing You
(11:11) The Risk of Artificial Fertilizers vs. Manure
(15:16) Nutritional Differences in Whole vs. “White” Grains
(18:31) Effects of Pesticides and Herbicides on Mental Health
(22:41) Is Milk Healthy?
(26:33) Why Some, But Not All, Meat is Bad for Your Health
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