Organic Milk vs. Regular Milk: Which Tastes Better?

Milk, it does a body good. At least that is what the ads have been telling us since the 80s and 90s, if not earlier. And this is still ingrained in most of our minds as being true. But when those commercials first aired there were not as many options for milk as there are today.

Twenty years ago your choices were predominately regular, a reduced fat variety or nonfat. But today picking a gallon of milk from the plethora of choices can stop you in your tracks and make you wonder: which milk will do your body good?

Making that milk selection is not just about being calorie conscious anymore; the choice also deals with allergy or dietary considerations and can even come down to an ethical decision for some. One of the more predominant choices available now is the option for organic milk. And while we know that there is a real difference between organic and regular, we also know there is a pretty steep hike in price? And so, we at Kitchen Daily wanted to know: is the difference between organic and regular milk one you can taste? And if so, which tastes better? Our team of editors conducted a taste test to find out.

Before we get to the results, here are some regulation differences between organic and regular milk:

Organic vs. Regular

Antibiotics. If an organic dairy cow needs to be treated with an antibiotic, they are not allowed back into the herd until after 12 months of being certified as antibiotic free. Non-organic dairy cows can be returned back to the herd as soon as they get those results.

Pasture feeding. According to regulations, organic cows must have access to pasture feeding. The terms for this are vague; the amount of time a dairy cow spends on the pasture is unknown and most likely varies according to the size of the farm.

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Organic cows are not allowed rBGH injections. This hormone is commonly used to enhance milk production in regular dairy cows. The worry with BGH is that cows injected with this hormone will produce additional Insulin Growth factor, which may cause illnesses in humans if ingested excessively

Pesticides. While regular dairy cows do not have regulations on whether their feed can be treated with pesticides, organic cows do.

The Verdict:

Twenty four editors blind-tasted the two milks, side by side, and...

  • 53 percent of our tasters were able to clearly identify which milk was organic.
  • 56 percent of our tasters preferred organic milk to regular milk

Here's what our tasters thought:

Organic Milk: "Has a neutral, thirst-quenching flavor." "Has a richer flavor." "Tasted thicker." "Sweeter." "Has an odd taste." "Tastes smoother, creamier."

Regular Milk: "Has a bit richer taste." "Tastes more watery." "Has a more complex flavor." "Has a slightly plastic taste." "Slightly less sour." "Waterier."

Both: "Both Good." "Milky Tasting." "Organic doesn't have as strong of a flavor as regular." "I can't tell the difference." "Yup, they both taste like milk." "They taste more or less exactly the same."

In Summary: There is not a huge taste difference between organic milk compared to regular milk -- though there was a slight preference toward organic. One could assume that those who spend the extra bucks for organic milk do so because of the regulations surrounding it -- more so than for its flavor.

Which milk do you prefer? Organic or regular? Leave a comment below.

As always, our taste tests are in no way influenced by or sponsored by the brands included.

WATCH: An iconic milk does a body good commercial from the early 90s.

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Poorest smokers face toughest odds for kicking the habit

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Quitting smoking is never easy. However, when you're poor and uneducated, kicking the habit for good is doubly hard, according to a new study by a tobacco dependence researcher at The City College of New York (CCNY).

Christine Sheffer, associate medical professor at CCNY's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, tracked smokers from different socioeconomic backgrounds after they had completed a statewide smoking cessation program in Arkansas.

Whether rich or poor, participants managed to quit at about the same rate upon completing a program of cognitive behavioral therapy, either with or without nicotine patches. But as time went on, a disparity between the groups appeared and widened.

Those with the fewest social and financial resources had the hardest time staving off cravings over the long run. "The poorer they are, the worse it gets," said Professor Sheffer, who directed the program and was an assistant professor with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at the time.

She found that smokers on the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder were 55 percent more likely than those at the upper end to start smoking again three months after treatment. By six months post-quitting, the probability of their going back to cigarettes jumped to two-and-a-half times that of the more affluent smokers. The research will be published in the March 2012 issue of the American Journal of Public Health and will appear ahead-of-print online under the journal's "First Look" section.

In their study, Professor Sheffer and her colleagues noted that overall, Americans with household incomes of $15,000 or less smoke at nearly three times the rate of those with incomes of $50,000 or greater. The consequences are bleak. "Smoking is still the greatest cause of preventable death and disease in the United States today," noted Professor Sheffer. "And it's a growing problem in developing countries."

Harder to Stay Away

Professor Sheffer suggested reasons it may be harder for some to give up tobacco forever.

Smoking relieves stress for those fighting nicotine addiction, so it is life's difficulties that often make them reach for the cigarette pack again. Unfortunately, those on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale suffer more hardships than those at the top ? in the form of financial difficulties, discrimination, and job insecurity, to name a few. And for those smokers who started as teenagers, they may have never learned other ways to manage stress, said Professor Sheffer.

For people with lower socioeconomic status (SES), it can be tougher to avoid temptation as well. "Lower SES groups, with lower paying jobs, aren't as protected by smoke-free laws," said Sheffer, so individuals who have quit can find themselves back at work and surrounded by smokers. Also fewer of them have no-smoking policies in their homes.

These factors are rarely addressed in standard treatment programs. "The evidence-based treatments that are around have been developed for middle-class patients," Professor Sheffer pointed out. "So (in therapy) we talk about middle-class problems."

Further research would help determine how the standard six sessions of therapy might be altered or augmented to help. "Our next plan is to take the results of this and other studies and apply what we learned to revise the approach, in order to better meet the needs of poor folks," she said. "Maybe there is a better arrangement, like giving 'booster sessions'. Not everybody can predict in six weeks all the stresses they will have later on down the road."

"Some people say [quitting] is the most difficult thing in their life to do," said Sheffer. "If we better prepare people with more limited resources to manage the types of stress they have in their lives, we'd get better results. "

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Sweeping genetic analysis of rare disease yields common mechanism of hypertension

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Analyzing all the genes of dozens of people suffering from a rare form of hypertension, Yale University researchers have discovered a new mechanism that regulates the blood pressure of all humans.

The findings by an international research team headed by Yale scientists, published online Jan. 22 in the journal Nature, may help explain what goes wrong in the one billion people who suffer from high blood pressure. The study also demonstrates the power of new DNA sequencing methods to find previously unknown disease-causing genes.

The team used a technique called whole exome sequencing an analysis of the makeup of all the genes to study a rare inherited form of hypertension characterized by excess levels of potassium in the blood. They found mutations in either of two genes that caused the disease in affected members of 41 families suffering from the condition.

The two genes interact with one another in a complex that targets other proteins for degradation, and they orchestrate the balance between salt reabsorption and potassium secretion in the kidney.

"These genes were not previously suspected to play a role in blood pressure regulation, but if they are lost, the kidney can't put the brakes on salt reabsorption, resulting in hypertension," said Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics at Yale and senior author of the paper.

The mutations had previously been difficult to find because there were very few affected members in each family, so traditional methods to map the genes' locations had been ineffective.

"The mutations in one gene were almost all new mutations found in affected patients but not their parents, while mutations in the other gene could be either dominant or recessive. The exome sequencing technology was ideally suited to cutting through these complexities," said Lynn Boyden of Yale, the first author of the paper.

The next step is to establish how these new components are involved in regulating sodium reabsorption in the kidney, in hopes of finding new ways intervene in hypertension, a major global health problem.

"We are finding all the individual parts to a complicated machine, and we need to understand how they are all put together to make the machine work," said Lifton, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Physicians from 10 countries and 17 states in the United States recruited patients and families with this rare disease and participated in the research.

The work was funded by the HHMI and Leducq Transatlantic Network for Hypertension and from National Institutes of Health grants from a O'Brien Center and the Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award grant through the National Center for Research Resources.



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Contact: Bill Hathaway
william.hathaway@yale.edu
203-432-1322
Yale University

Analyzing all the genes of dozens of people suffering from a rare form of hypertension, Yale University researchers have discovered a new mechanism that regulates the blood pressure of all humans.

The findings by an international research team headed by Yale scientists, published online Jan. 22 in the journal Nature, may help explain what goes wrong in the one billion people who suffer from high blood pressure. The study also demonstrates the power of new DNA sequencing methods to find previously unknown disease-causing genes.

The team used a technique called whole exome sequencing an analysis of the makeup of all the genes to study a rare inherited form of hypertension characterized by excess levels of potassium in the blood. They found mutations in either of two genes that caused the disease in affected members of 41 families suffering from the condition.

The two genes interact with one another in a complex that targets other proteins for degradation, and they orchestrate the balance between salt reabsorption and potassium secretion in the kidney.

"These genes were not previously suspected to play a role in blood pressure regulation, but if they are lost, the kidney can't put the brakes on salt reabsorption, resulting in hypertension," said Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics at Yale and senior author of the paper.

The mutations had previously been difficult to find because there were very few affected members in each family, so traditional methods to map the genes' locations had been ineffective.

"The mutations in one gene were almost all new mutations found in affected patients but not their parents, while mutations in the other gene could be either dominant or recessive. The exome sequencing technology was ideally suited to cutting through these complexities," said Lynn Boyden of Yale, the first author of the paper.

The next step is to establish how these new components are involved in regulating sodium reabsorption in the kidney, in hopes of finding new ways intervene in hypertension, a major global health problem.

"We are finding all the individual parts to a complicated machine, and we need to understand how they are all put together to make the machine work," said Lifton, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Physicians from 10 countries and 17 states in the United States recruited patients and families with this rare disease and participated in the research.

The work was funded by the HHMI and Leducq Transatlantic Network for Hypertension and from National Institutes of Health grants from a O'Brien Center and the Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award grant through the National Center for Research Resources.



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Arnie visits Austrian town run on green energy (AP)

GUESSING, Austria ? It was another chance to tuck into a schnitzel. But Arnold Schwarzenegger's visit to a small eastern Austrian town had a more compelling purpose.

Austria's most famous living son is proud of his record of greening California while governor. So his visit to Guessing, which meets its energy needs through renewables, was fitting.

In both Guessing and California, "the world has already become a better one," he told fans and dignitaries gathered in his honor Sunday.

After a lunch of Wiener schnitzel and Kaiserscharrn ? chopped up pancakes with jam ? Arnie toured the village's energy plants, describing his push for green energy as "my crusade."

And yes, the "Terminator" star did say, "I'll be back."

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Philipp Jenne contributed to this report.

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Youth find their voice on Tunisian radio

More than 100 young volunteers received technical training and now produce Web radio program focused on youth perspectives in Tunisia.

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In the year since Tunisia?s Arab Spring revolution shed its former dictator?s tight grip over public expression, many are exploring myriad ways to be heard.

Ana Tounsi Radio, a US-funded effort, aims to keep young voices in the mix through Web radio and online video broadcasting. More than 100 young volunteers received technical training and now make programming decisions for the initiative, which went live in October under the slogan (translated from the local Arabic dialect) ?It?s not enough that you listen. It?s time now to speak.?

On-air topics range from sports and culture to social and political issues. Conversations spill over onto social media sites and YouTube. Programs run 24/7, with live broadcasts from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. During Tunisia?s fall elections, the station says young people provided extensive coverage from around the country.

Fedia Gasmi, part of a nongovernmental organization that oversees the project, says the station empowers youths by giving them a space to articulate their priorities. As they re-invent the communications landscape, she says, the goal is to enhance civic engagement as well as to ?create critical thinking about media.?

A $215,000 grant from the US State Depart?ment?s Middle East Partnership Initiative helped pay for equipment and start-up costs.

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U.S. mulls options for slashing Iran's oil revenues (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama administration, still grappling with how to punish a nuclear-ambitious Iran, is focusing on making countries cut purchases of Iranian oil, rather than allowing them to avoid U.S. sanctions simply by winning price cuts.

The White House intends to play it tough on implementing new Iran sanctions, and officials said they will not waive them on national-security grounds. But they also said the administration was so far getting "enough indications" of reduced imports.

Since President Barack Obama signed the Iranian sanctions package late last year, the administration has struggled with how to implement the rules without driving oil prices higher and hurting the fragile U.S. economy in an election year.

The administration is mindful that Congress could seek new legislation to close loopholes on sanctions if lawmakers do not see broad cooperation on punishing Iran for what the United States says is a program to develop a nuclear-weapon capability. Iran maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

U.S. SEEING SIGNS COUNTRIES CURTAILING PURCHASES

The new U.S. law prohibits institutions from dealing with Iran's central bank, which acts as the clearinghouse for OPEC's second-largest oil exporter. That essentially would force countries and their institutions to choose between working with Iran and having access to the U.S. financial system.

However, the sanctions give Obama the authority to exempt countries and their institutions if he determines the country has "significantly reduced" its volume of crude oil purchases.

Now the administration is trying to define significant reduction, with senior officials from the Treasury and State Departments traveling to Japan and South Korea this week to discuss their ideas.

Among its options, the administration has considered encouraging countries to impose import tariffs on Iranian oil to curtail Iran's revenues, sources familiar with the administration's thinking said.

U.S. officials also considered defining significant reduction in terms of a price cut in the total revenues paid to Iran, the sources said. That would have allowed countries to win exemptions from the sanctions if they negotiated lower prices for the oil.

Both approaches would have helped starve Iran of oil revenues while allowing it to continue selling to China, India, Japan, South Korea, Turkey and other countries.

The European Union, which buys about a fifth of Iran's oil exports, is set to impose an import ban within months, while Japan has pledged this month to cut purchases. But India and China, which buy about a third of the OPEC member's exports, have resisted pressure to comply.

The top priority for the White House is pushing countries to reduce the volume of oil they buy, even though a number of ways to determine whether a country has reduced its purchases have been considered, according to an Obama administration official.

"Treasury may have been thinking of price reductions internally at one stage, but that is not on the table anymore," said the administration official. "The administration is getting enough indications that countries will be reducing how much oil they eventually buy from Iran."

The law also allows Obama to waive sanctions if he determines it serves the national security of the United States. Japan, South Korea and Turkey have said they could seek waivers.

So far the administration has been telling countries it will not grant waivers. "You can ask for a waiver but you are not getting one. What we want is a reduction in purchases and in doing business with Iran," said the official.

PRICE REDUCTION DEBATE

When the U.S. Congress was debating the sanctions bill in December, the administration proposed a price mechanism that would allow countries to escape penalties if they cut how much they paid Iran for its oil by 5 percent.

But lawmakers saw the decrease as too slight and rejected the idea.

Congress is watching how the administration will implement the law. Congressional aides say that if lawmakers are unhappy with how the administration defines "significantly reduced", they will work on legislation directing the White House to adopt specific parameters.

"A broad interpretation would call into question the seriousness of the country's Iran policy," said an aide to Republican Senator Mark Kirk, one of the lawmakers who helped craft the Iranian measure.

Kirk is open to the idea of defining the reduction by requiring countries to reduce how much they pay Iran for oil by 18 percent per year, according to the aide.

A Treasury official said the administration was committed to using this law, in concert with other efforts, to reduce Iran's access to oil revenue, "both by working with our partners to significantly reduce their imports of Iranian crude and by impeding the Central Bank of Iran's ability to receive payment for whatever oil Iran is able to sell."

(Reporting By Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Dale Hudson and David Gregorio)

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How the major stock indexes fared on Friday (AP)

IBM and Microsoft drove the Dow Jones industrial average higher Friday after the tech giants reported stronger earnings than analysts expected.

Microsoft said sales of Xbox games and Office software helped push revenue up in the last quarter of 2011. IBM credited better sales of software and services and raised its earnings outlook for the year. Microsoft rose 6 percent and IBM rose 4 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 96.50 points, or 0.8 percent, to close at 12,720.48.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 0.88 points, or 0.07 percent, to 1,315.38.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 1.63 points, or 0.06 percent, to 2,786.70.

For the week:

The Dow is up 298.42, or 2.4 percent.

The S&P 500 is up 26.29, or 2 percent.

The Nasdaq is up 76.03 or 2.8 percent.

For the year to date:

The Dow is up 502.92, or 4.1 percent.

The S&P 500 is up 57.78 points, or 4.6 percent.

The Nasdaq is up 181.55 points, or 6.9 percent.

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Idol Judge Steven Tyler?s New Fianc?e is Trouble

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When American Idol judge Steven Tyler got engaged over the holidays, it seemed like the 63-year-old ladies? man had finally found the woman who could tame him. But a source warns that his fianc?e, Erin Brady, is a hard-partying hothead who will lead him down a dangerous path, perhaps affecting his stint on the hit show. ?Liv [Tyler] and her sisters are about to get the stepmom from hell,? says an insider to In Touch.

Erin, 38, who first met Steven when she was Aerosmith?s tour accountant, didn?t make many fans in the band?s road crew. ?She had a reputation for getting drunk out of her mind and lashing out in violent outbursts,? reveals the insider. And it?s only gotten worse now that she has a ring. ?She?s an even bigger monster than before,? complains the insider, noting Erin?s partying and instability is especially bad for Steven, who famously battled addiction for years. ?Nobody wants to see him marry this woman.?

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First-ever private rocket launch to ISS postponed

The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by SpaceX was scheduled to launch toward the space station on Feb. 7, but the company has decided to postpone the flight to accommodate more engineering tests.

The first test flight of a privately built robot space capsule to the International Space Station has been delayed to allow more time to prepare the vehicle, the spacecraft's builder announced today (Jan. 16).

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The?unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by the California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), was scheduled to launch toward the space station on Feb. 7, but the company has decided to postpone the flight to accommodate more engineering tests.

"In preparation for the upcoming launch, SpaceX continues to conduct extensive testing and analysis," SpaceX spokesperson Kirstin Grantham said in an email statement. "We believe that there are a few areas that will benefit from additional work and will optimize the safety and success of this mission."

A new launch date for the mission has not yet been announced, but SpaceX officials said the company is working with NASA to determine the best time for the test flight.

"We are now working with NASA to establish a new target launch date, but note that we will continue to test and review data," Grantham said. "We will launch when the vehicle is ready." [Photos: Dragon, SpaceX's Private Spaceship]

The launch of the Dragon capsule atop SpaceX's own Falcon 9 rocket is expected to be a?critical step for the private spaceflight industry. The mission is designed to test the vehicle's ability to carry cargo to the station, and if successful, Dragon will be the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and dock to the orbiting outpost.

During the flight, the capsule will rendezvous with the complex, and members of the space station crew will grab the vehicle using the station's robotic arm and attach it to the Earth-facing side of the outpost's Harmony node. This process is similar to how visiting robotic Japanese cargo freighters are grappled and attached to the space station.

SpaceX's planned flight is the second for the company under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. While this mission will test the Dragon capsule's ability to rendezvous and dock to the space station, SpaceX is eventually planning to use a version of the vehicle to one day carry NASA astronauts and other paying customers to low-Earth orbit.

Last month, when NASA announced the original launch date, William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, said that SpaceX would need to satisfy all of the agency's safety requirements before being allowed to perform the demonstration flight.

The Dragon capsule?launched on its maiden flight?in December 2010 in what was SpaceX's first test flight of the robotic vehicle. The spacecraft completed two orbits of Earth before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. The historic mission marked the first time a commercial company launched and returned a capsule from space.

With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program, several commercial companies are vying to fill the cargo-carrying void left by the grounded shuttles. NASA's COTS program is designed to foster the development of a new fleet of private spaceships that will deliver food, supplies and hardware to the space station.

As part of its partnership with NASA, SpaceX will receive up to $396 million for the successful completion of the milestones outlined in their Space Act Agreement.

Orbital Sciences Corp is another private company developing a cargo freighter under NASA's COTS program. The company, based in Dulles, Va., is building its?Cygnus spacecraft?to carry supplies to the space station. Orbital will receive up to $288 million for the successful completion of their planned milestones, with the first Cygnus test flight expected in 2012.

You can follow SPACE.com staff writer Denise Chow on Twitter?@denisechow. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter?@Spacedotcom?and on?Facebook.

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