BOSTON: Got raw milk? - (Boston Globe magazine)
March 31, 2008 – 8:16 pmhttp://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/03/23/got_raw_milk/
David E. Gumpert, described as a freelance writer living in Needham (who also runs a blog, The Complete Patient, advocating raw milk — dp,
http://www.thecompletepatient.com/welcome/) writes that Valerie Walbek is a 28-year-old nurse practitioner at a Falmouth clinic who gives all her pregnant patients the same advice: Eat four daily servings of dairy products and by all means avoid any dairy that is unpasteurized.
That’s because the US Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Medical Association have warned for years that unpasteurized - or “raw” - milk and cheeses can carry listeria, a potentially deadly kind of bacteria, and other pathogens that are particularly threatening to pregnant women and their babies.
But what Walbek doesn’t tell her patients is that when she was pregnant with her first child last year, she drank gallons of unpasteurized milk. The milk is purchased from a Foxborough farm each week. […]
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