Quoted: Dark-skinned people in higher latitudes need to be exposed to about 6 to 10 times as much sunlight as white-skinned people for the vitamin D in their blood to reach acceptable levels. This equates to about 2 to 3 hours of sunlight about 3 times a week for Africans living in, say, the UK.

Quoted: Eat Wild - The clearinghouse for information about pasture-based farming.

Interesting table showing how "big city tap water" is actually subject to many more tests than bottled water.

Quoted: Starch is rapidly converted into blood glucose and that spike in blood sugar causes major problems. The foundation of the old food pyramid, grains, is no different than table sugar in being hyperglycemic, i.e. rapidly raising blood sugar.

Quoted: Retain the preference for the more omega-3 friendly olive oil or perhaps flax oil versus the omega-6 rich vegetable oils (corn, soy, safflower), but focus on freshness and do not heat these oils.
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The data seem to be in favor of saturated fats for cooking. That means a shift to coconut oil.

Yay.

Quoted: A 21-year study finds that moderate coffee drinkers are much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Quoted: Steve Jobs has broken a deafening silence on his health to tell the Apple Community that it is not a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer but a treatable hormone imbalance

This is good. Feeding cows grass significantly increases the omega 3 to omega 6 ratio.

Quoted: The USDA proposal would add another requirement to the list of rules organic dairies must follow: During grazing season, cows must eat pasture grass.