FOND of cheese but depressed about it's high level of saturated fats ? Now there's a healthier alternative: yak cheese !
Mamun Or-Rashdie at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues compared the fatty-acid content of cheese made from a Nepalese yak's milk and a standard Canadian cheddar. They found that the yak cheese had a lower overall fat content and compared with cow's milk cheese, contained much higher levels of hearth-healthly "good fats" such as conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) and omega-3 fatty acids (Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, DOI:10.1021/jf0725225). Some of the difference is due to the yak's diet of pasture grasses and shurbs, which gives their milk a better fatty-acid profile than that from anilmals raised on industrial grain-based feed. However, the yak cheese had even higher levels of these beneficial fats than pastured-fed cattle, says Or-Rashid. And, he adds, it tastes good, with delicate flavour. Though yaks are not common dairy animals outside the Himalayan highlands, Or-Rashid suggests cold-climate farmers elsewhere might like try them out. (New Scientists 22.03.2008, p.18) |
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Professor S. W. Irwin - leading archeologist of a T2 university - says he has
found unquestionable proofs for a much earlier existence of the special yak race
Yodipus yodiensis . The discovery of new cave drawings dates back the
beginning of the Yak's history by more than 10.000 years - an uncredible jump in
archeology which immediately raises up a lot of new mysterious questions to be
answered by forthcoming scientific research.
After a search of more than 2 years S.W. Irwin says he has found an important message from the past. The message dates back to an ancient era, - a time well before the Classic SE or the plain grid proxy - and was apparently written in a pre-LCFGng dialect, but clearly shows how the Yak was influencing the distributed efforts of the community of that time. "I had to keep my breath for several seconds, when I discovered the drawing" - professor S.W. Irwin said. "We have to re-evaluate the influence of the ancient civilizations on our community and clarify the missing pieces of the 10.000 years long history suddenly passed. This should be top priority !" - he continued. Some of the colleagues of the professor expressed strong criticism concerning his work, criticism which may or may not be valid , but finally the scientific community arrived to a consensus that the work has to be continued... Yak Scientific - 18, march, 2008 |
![]() The recently discoverd cave drawings - beginning of a new past ? |
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