Maintenance Phase

Once widely banned, raw milk consumption is on the rise and states are repealing their bans. No one’s happier about that than the far right. How did we get here?
NOTE: In the retelling of Pasteur’s early pasteurization, Aubrey misspoke! The culprit wasn’t lactic yeast, it was lactic acid bacteria. Sorry for the slip up!
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Milk!: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas
U.S. Consumer survey
The Effects of Pasteurization on Vitamins
Lingering Heat over Pasteurized Milk
How pasteurization improves safety
Swill-Milk and Infant Mortality
Alta Dena (Court case 1, Court case 2, Alta Dena's raw milk history)
A Raw Milk Magnate Has Spent Years Fighting Public Health Agencies
Should This Milk Be Legal?
The Amish farmer who ignited outrage over raw milk
Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk? 
The Quest for Raw Milk
Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk
Right Wing Commentators Are Pushing Misinformation
How Raw Milk Went From Hippie to MAGA 
Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu
Influencers promote raw milk 
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One blogger bravely pushes back against Starbucks, Subway and basic scientific facts.

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Taking On the Food Industry, One Blog Post at a Time
How the ‘Food Babe’ Went From Obama Ally to Trump Crusader
Activist or Capitalist? How the 'Food Babe' Makes Money
Latest Food Scare: What Is The 'Yoga Mat' Chemical - And Why Is It In Your Food? 
Almost 500 Foods Contain The 'Yoga Mat' Compound. Should We Care? 
Are You Eating This Ingredient Banned All Over the World?
The "Food Babe" Blogger is Full of Shit 
Are Microwaves Safe? 
Global Food Security Index 2022 
Differences between EU and US nutrition labels go far beyond ounces and grams
Is Food Really Better in Europe?
Vani Hari: How She Grew Her Food Blog Into An Empire
Food blogger asks Kraft to stop using dye in mac and cheese
Meet the food blogger influencing RFK Jr.
Food Babe blogger Vani Hari taking heat over health science 
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Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers.
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The O6-O3 ratio: A critical appraisal
Seed Oils: Are They Actually Toxic?
No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats
Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?
Seed oils: Are they healthy or harmful?
ToxGuide: Hexane
Dietary linoleic acid intake and blood inflammatory markers
Effect of dietary alpha-linolenic acid on blood inflammatory markers
Changes in consumption of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids
The Skinny on Fats
Dietary oleic acid drives obesogenic adipogenesis
How Seed Oils May Be Affecting Your Body Fat and Health
Stanford nutrition expert breaks down effects of seed oils
The Newest Bitcoin Diet Trend Is Hating ‘Seed Oils’
Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Coronary Artery Disease
The Great Con-ola
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We’re talking about our first diet MLM and IT’S A REAL DOOZY!
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Herbalife: Weighty Profits and Government Probes 
Herbalife Exec's Death Prompts Bizarre Fallout
Autopsy on Herbalife founder finds death caused by accidental overdose 
The Uncertain Start of a Remarkable Life
Nobel Prize Winner Didn't Disclose Herbalife Contract 
Latinos crucial to Herbalife's financial health
Latino Group Demands Herbalife Probe
The Big Short War 
The Siege of Herbalife
After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of Power
Herbalife Will Restructure and Pay $200 Million to Settle FTC Charges 
An inside look at the $200 million FTC settlement 
U.S. says Herbalife to pay $123.1 million to resolve China bribery case 
Herbalife announces new CEO to lead the L.A. nutrition company

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Mark Hughes' origin story
Senate committee hearing 
Celebrity endorsement
Former Herbalife Distributors Speak Out
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Everyone agrees that processed foods are bad for you. When it comes to defining what they actually are, however, there is considerably less agreement. 

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Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing
Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues
Examining the Nova Food Classification System and the Healthfulness of Ultra-Processed Foods
A new classification of foods based on the extent and purpose of their processing
Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
Ultra-processed foods and mortality
Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study
Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’
Food addiction: a valid concept?
The study of food addiction using animal models of binge eating
Obesity and the brain: how convincing is the addiction model?
Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease: analysis of three large US prospective cohorts
Sugar addiction: the state of the science
The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food
Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake 
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