There are many cognitive benefits to napping some of which I’ll be posting about over the next week or two. An interesting study out of the Harvard School of Public Health, however, indicates that an afternoon nap may also be very healthy for your heart.

The study, published in this month’s issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reveals that people who took an afternoon nap of 30 minutes or more at least three times a week had a 37% lower risk of dying from heart disease than those who did not.

Additionally, the study showed that those who took at least an occasional nap at work had a 64% lower risk of death from heart attacks or other heart-related ailments than those who did not nap.

Reference: Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:296-301. Siesta in Healthy Adults and Coronary Mortality in the General Population.

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I stopped regularly drinking milk years ago for health reasons, and- based on the sheer volume of milk propaganda going around- have always felt the dairy industry has had an unnatural grip on American dietary habits.

From the site www.milksucks.com:

Dairy products are a health hazard. They contain no fiber or complex carbohydrates and are laden with saturated fat and cholesterol. They are contaminated with cow’s blood and pus and are frequently contaminated with pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. Dairy products are linked to allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.

The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow’s milk to children, saying it can cause anemia, allergies, and insulin-dependent diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease, America’s number one cause of death.

And dairy products may actually cause osteoporosis, not prevent it, since their high-protein content leaches calcium from the body. Population studies, backed up by a groundbreaking Harvard study of more than 75,000 nurses, suggest that drinking milk can actually cause osteoporosis

Came across a very recent study showing that the more milk you drink each day, the more likely you are to get Parkinson’s disease- a horrible degenerative disease of the brain that is surprisingly common in the elderly.

Men who consumed more than 16oz of milk a day were 2.3 times more likely to develop Parkinson’s than those who drank no milk at all.

The study, conducted by researchers at Korea University, was published in the journal Neurology.

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