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The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Controversial trad wife Nara Smith slammed as ‘negligent' for promoting ‘dangerous' drink while pregnant
NARA Smith has arguably become one of the most famous trad wives on social media. The 23-year-old mum has gone viral for sharing her home-made recipes, from chewing gum to controversially making her own SPF. 3 And now the controversial mum has been slammed as negligent in a recent recipe video. Taking to social media, Nara, who is currently pregnant with her fourth child, shared her recipe for cookies. All was going well as she showed the delicious soft-baked cookies until she revealed what she was drinking with them. Most people like to have a glass of milk with their cookies, and Nara did just that, but this time, with raw milk. "These hit the spot with some cold raw milk," the mum said as she finished her video, sparking a horrified response from concerned viewers. The drink has been illegal to buy in the UK for forty years due to dangerous bacteria found in raw dairy products. One wrote: "Raw milk while pregnant is actually unhinged." "Raw milk while pregnant is crazy... why is pasteurisation a problem?" added a third. Meanwhile, a fourth said: "Raw milk for why?? You are taking an enormous risk for no reason." Viral trad wife Nara Smith pregnant with 4th child aged 23 - as trolls say 'that's insane, as I'm sure the name will be' The U.S. Food and Drug Administratio said pregnant women run a serious risk of becoming ill drinking raw milk. Listeria, a germ often found in raw milk can cause miscarriage, or illness, or death of the newborn baby. "If you are pregnant, drinking raw milk - or eating foods made from raw milk - can harm your baby even if you don't feel sick," they warned. Nara has gained a massive following on social media due to her 'trad wife' lifestyle. She's often seen in the kitchen baking extravagant meals from scratch while wearing designer dresses worth thousands of pounds. She shares Rumble, four, Slim Easy, three, and Whimsy Lou, one, with Lucky, 27 - whom she tied the knot with in 2020 What is raw milk and the dangers? Most milk goes through pasteurisation before it is consumed. This is where it is cooked to below boiling point to kill off bacteria and micro-organisms. However, raw milk is not pasteurised and can be harmful. As more people drank milk in the 20th Century an increase in milkborne diseases ripped through humans. Tuberculosis, typhoid, scarlet fever and diphtheria were just a few of the serious illnesses spread through raw milk. These diseases were virtually eliminated in humans with the implementation of pasteurisation, in combination with improved management practices on dairy farms. Raw milk can carry dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, e-coli, listeria and campylobacter. A 2019 Public Health England review finds raw milk responsible for 26 outbreaks of intestinal infectious disease in England and Wales between 1992 and 2017. These involved 343 people and resulted in 41 hospitalisations. There were no outbreaks between 2003 and 2013, but seven occured between 2014 and 2017. It's been illegal to sell unpasteurised dairy milk in supermarkets or high street shops in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since 1985 and it's outlawed in Scotland.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Nara Smith Is Facing Criticism From Fans After Seemingly Drinking Raw Milk While Pregnant
You know influencer Nara Smith, probably. It's possible you've seen her pop up amidst thousands of rounds of "tradwife" discourse, which she, of course, has an opinion on — but, we're not here to talk about that today. Related: What we are here to talk about is this TikTok in which Nara and her husband Lucky Blue Smith (what a name!) make cinnamon roll cookies from scratch. Now, if you're aware of these two in general, you may be saying to yourself, "So what? They are literally posting stuff like this all the time." @naraazizasmith / Via And you're not wrong! But what is significant about this particular video takes place near the very end, in which Nara states that "Even though I'm not a fan of cookies, these hit the spot with some cold raw milk." The safety of consuming raw milk is, to say the least, highly disputed. The CDC specifically states on its website that drinking milk that hasn't gone through the pasteurization process can expose those who consume it to illnesses like E. coli and listeria. "Some groups, such as children under 5, adults over 65, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, are at a higher risk of serious illness from these germs," the agency states. That last bit is crucial because Nara is currently pregnant with her fourth child. Related: Now, before we get into the "Here's what people are saying" of it all: At no point in the video does Nara actually show herself drinking raw milk. However, she does suggest that she drank it, and given that she is literally considered an influencer, perhaps encouraging other pregnant women to enjoy some raw milk and cookies isn't exactly a positive "influence." All of that being said, here's what people are saying: Related: Related: There you have it. A rare instance where reading the comments is actually a pretty good idea! Also in Celebrity: Also in Celebrity: Also in Celebrity:
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Pregnant tradwife influencer slammed as 'negligent' for promoting a dangerous trendy drink
A pregnant tradwife influencer has come under fire for promoting a dangerous trendy drink - which can result in severe illness when consumed. In a recent video posted to social media, Nara Smith made some chocolate chip cookies from scratch - before she seemingly paired the tasty dessert with a glass of unpasteurized milk. The 23-year-old - who rose to fame by documenting her lifestyle on social media - was seen making cinnamon roll cookies with her husband, Lucky Smith. After baking the cookies, the mom-of-three - who is currently pregnant with her forth child - ended the video by trying them. 'These hit the spot with some cold raw milk,' the content creator concluded her video, sparking a horrified response from concerned followers. Many were quick to point out the dangers of consuming raw milk in the comment section, especially because Nara is expecting. 'Raw milk while pregnant is actually unhinged,' a shocked user wrote. Another agreed, writing: 'Raw milk while pregnant is crazy... why is pasteurization a problem?' 'Nurse here... do NOT use unpasteurized, raw milk! Dangerous to you, baby and kids!' urged someone else. 'Raw milk at any time is absolutely bonkers. Raw milk while you're pregnant is borderline negligent,' admonished another. Pasteurization involves heating raw milk to kill off bacteria that can cause harm, resulting in the safer-to-drink milk lining grocery store shelves. However raw milk, which as been promoted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, does not undergo this process and poses a severe health risk as it can be contaminated with dangerous pathogens. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, raw milk is milk from cows, sheep, and goats - or any other animal - that has not been pasteurized to kill harmful germs. Raw milk can carry dangerous germs such as Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacte, and others that cause food-borne illness, also known as food poisoning. The federal agency said pregnant women run a serious risk of becoming ill from Listeria, a germ often found in raw milk and can cause miscarriage, or illness, or death of the newborn baby. 'If you are pregnant, drinking raw milk - or eating foods made from raw milk - can harm your baby even if you don't feel sick,' they warned. 'These hit the spot with some cold raw milk,' the content creator concluded her video, sparking a horrified response from concerned followers The 'tradwife' influencer caused controversy in the past, as she was accused of 'glamorizing' teen pregnancy in June after she shared news of her latest pregnancy to Instagram and TikTok. Nara has gained a massive following on social media where she flaunts her 'tradwife' (traditional housewife) lifestyle, baking extravagant meals for her family while seeming to effortlessly care for her young children. She shares Rumble, four, Slim Easy, three, and Whimsy Lou, one, with Lucky, 27 - whom she tied the knot with in 2020. While talking to Harper's Bazaar last year, the influencer pushed back on flak over her 'tradwife' lifestyle, claiming she doesn't associate with the label. She explained that when it comes to the term 'tradwife,' she has 'a really hard time' understanding what it actually means. Nara stated that what she posts on social media is 'really not that deep' and added that she is simply just 'a working mom.' She added, 'I never know what to say when people ask me [what I do], because technically, yes, I create content. But then I'm just living my life and sharing that with people, which a lot of people do.'
Medical News Today
19-06-2025
- Health
- Medical News Today
Can drinking raw milk make a person sick?
Raw milk describes milk that has not undergone the pasteurization process. As pasteurization removes disease-causing germs from milk, it is not advisable for people to drink raw milk. Raw milk, also known as unpasteurized milk, comes directly from animals, such as cows, goats, and sheep. Raw milk has not undergone pasteurization. This is a process that involves heating the milk to kill potentially harmful bacteria. Proponents of consuming raw milk may suggest that it provides additional health benefits. However, pasteurized milk offers the same nutritional benefits, without the risk of raw milk consumption. While good practices on farms may help to reduce contamination in milk, they cannot guarantee safety from bacteria without the pasteurization process. As such, due to the potential risks of consuming raw milk, it is advisable for people to instead drink milk that has undergone pasteurization to avoid the risk of milk-borne is the process of using heat to destroy pathogens present in food. The most common method of pasteurization in the U.S. is High Temperature Short Time (HTST) pasteurization. This method uses metal plates and hot water to raise milk temperatures to at least 161° F for no less than 15 seconds, then rapidly cooling the milk. This process kills the potentially harmful bacteria that may be present in raw milk. Some evidence suggests that it may be possible to produce raw milk with a lower risk of milk-borne illness. However, no scientific research supports that any possible benefit of raw milk outweighs the potential risks or safety concerns, particularly for certain people. people aged 65 or over pregnant people infants and small children people with a weakened immune system Proponents of drinking raw milk suggest that it tastes better, is nutritionally superior, and may also provide more health benefits than pasteurized milk. They note that these benefits may include: However, the FDA emphasize that there is no scientific evidence to support these claims. Additionally, as there are no federal standards for raw milk, and it does not undergo pasteurization, there is no way to guarantee that the raw milk is safe to consume. The FDA highlight that individuals consuming raw milk are instead at a higher risk of becoming ill or even dying from foodborne illness due to drinking raw milk. To avoid foodborne illnesses and other potentially serious health risks from drinking raw milk, people should instead choose to consume pasteurized milk and dairy products. People can check the labels of milk products to ensure they have undergone pasteurization. Other tips to avoid food poisoning can include : refrigerating perishable foods at a suitable temperature to slow bacterial growth avoid leaving perishable foods out for long periods throwing away any expired or spoiled foods Raw milk is milk that has not undergone the pasteurization process. This is a process that uses heat to kill potentially harmful bacteria that may be present in food. As such, health experts do not advise consuming raw milk. Proponents suggest that raw milk may possess additional health benefits. However, no scientific evidence supports these claims. Consuming raw milk can make people very ill, particularly those with weaker immune systems, such as children, older adults, pregnant people, and immunocompromised people. Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Nutrition / Diet
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Raw milk advocates wonder: Where is Kennedy?
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health and human services secretary, advocates for raw milk were thrilled to have one of their own at the helm in Washington. A self-professed fan of the drink, Kennedy had included raw milk in a list of foods and drugs that he felt federal officials had unfairly suppressed. 'FDA's war on public health is about to end,' he wrote shortly after the November election. But Kennedy hasn't actively taken up the cause yet — even amid his sweeping effort to upend federal health agencies and his Make America Healthy Again campaign to change how Americans eat, frustrating and concerning some of the most prominent raw milk advocates. Federal officials have long warned that raw milk is unsafe for drinking because it hasn't gone through the heat process of pasteurization that kills off harmful bacteria, and sales across state lines have been banned since 1987. Kennedy helped champion and elevate raw milk and has criticized resistance from health officials, but he has yet to relax federal rules or reverse warnings against drinking it. His inaction so far is in contrast to his campaigns against childhood vaccines and artificial food dyes, longtime causes now at the center of his efforts as secretary. The Department of Health and Human Services didn't respond to questions seeking comment about Kennedy's plans. Mark McAfee, one of the country's leading raw milk producers, had expected to advise Kennedy's department on ways to support raw milk farmers and expand access to consumers and hoped to help reverse the federal government's official stance that raw milk is too risky to consume. McAfee said he had been in close touch with Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy's presidential running mate, who interviewed him for a video she produced about raw milk. McAfee said that Kennedy texted him in February, shortly after his confirmation, that he would be in touch — but that there has been silence since then. A recent federal report on children's health commissioned by President Donald Trump — titled 'The MAHA Report'— stressed the importance of whole milk and other unprocessed foods but made no mention of raw milk, even though Kennedy celebrated its release by doing shots of raw milk at the White House with a leading health influencer last month. The Food and Drug Administration's stance that 'raw milk puts all consumers at risk' because of potential contamination hasn't been changed or updated, nor has the federal ban on selling it across state lines. And when McAfee recently reached out to the FDA for a meeting, he was rebuffed. 'It appears that the FDA culture will continue its war against raw milk,' McAfee said. There's a long-standing consensus among U.S. public health agencies that pasteurization is an essential step to kill bacteria in milk — one of the most important mainstays of the American diet, especially for children. Then again, there's also consensus that vaccines don't cause autism and that they're necessary for public health and safety, and that hasn't stopped Kennedy from raising the issue. 'We've had this message, all of these decades, that raw milk is dangerous,' said Judith McGeary, executive director of the Farm and Ranch Alliance in Texas, which has advocated for expanding access to raw milk. 'It's not going to change overnight, no matter who's in charge.' Meghan Davis, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, said the federal warnings and restrictions on selling raw milk have been in place for good reason. 'Humans drank raw milk for a long time, but they got diseases from it for a long time,' said Davis, a former dairy veterinarian. 'Raw milk is among the more risky of the foodstuffs that we can consume.' Without pasteurization, which heats milk to high temperatures, raw milk is likelier to transmit dangerous pathogens like E. coli, salmonella, listeria and campylobacter, Davis said. But raw milk advocates like McAfee argue that the risks have been overstated and the health and nutritional benefits have been undersold, arguing that consuming raw milk provides healthy gut bacteria, decreases asthma and allergies and strengthens our immune systems — all claims the FDA challenged in a post last year about 'raw milk misconceptions.' Peg Coleman, a raw milk advocate and former Agriculture Department microbiologist, argues that a 'pro-pasteurization bias' remains entrenched in federal agencies and wants Kennedy's Health and Human Services Department to take down such information. But even despite the persistence of such warnings, 'there is the demand,' she said. 'People are still choosing raw milk.' Like many of the other health trends and beliefs that Kennedy has embraced, raw milk was once considered a fringe health food associated with the new-age left that has transformed into a signifier of the right — a mainstay of the MAHA health influencers in Kennedy's orbit and a rallying cry for conservatives who have pushed states to legalize raw milk sales and oppose government crackdowns on unlicensed raw milk producers. Small farmers, especially, have successfully lobbied both blue and red states to legalize sales as a way to diversify their offerings, overcoming major opposition from the pasteurized milk industry. But the sale of raw milk remains banned across state lines. And even though new state laws have expanded access and expanded raw milk production, sales remain highly restricted in most states: Only 14 permit retail sales to consumers. In many others, consumers must buy it on site from farms. And state health officials typically look to federal health agencies for guidance about safety. While some states have their own safety rules and testing requirements for raw milk, there are no federal standards or guidance for producers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that from 1998 to 2018, drinking raw milk was linked to 2,645 illnesses and 228 hospitalizations. The agency also found that outbreaks linked to unpasteurized dairy products are far more likely than those linked to pasteurized dairy. While the overall numbers are low compared with other raw foods like oysters and leafy greens, such foods are consumed far more widely. Davis added that more research is necessary to prove that specific standards or testing protocols are effective at making raw milk safe or safer to consume. 'We have to do that study,' she said. McAfee's own raw milk has been subject to multiple voluntary recalls, as well as outbreaks of foodborne illness. California officials linked raw milk from his company, Raw Farm, to dozens of salmonella cases in 2023. McAfee said the company has since strengthened its testing protocols and created an on-site pathogen lab to prevent future problems. 'We learned from that incident,' he said. 'We owned that we had a problem, and we fixed it.' Last year, the company also issued a recall after its raw milk tested positive for bird flu but said its products were never associated with any infections. McAfee says that proper guidelines and testing can make raw milk safe to drink — and that the federal government has an important role to play in establishing safety standards. He drafted a proposal for the FDA to develop standards and guidance for raw milk producers, which he sent to the agency after Kennedy became health and human services secretary. 'We are not looking for the FDA to regulate raw milk, but we would love to have the best FDA scientists in the world acknowledge the benefits of raw milk, if it is produced under the High Standards that we will discuss,' McAfee wrote in a recent email to FDA officials that he shared with NBC News. The FDA turned him down. 'Given our need to balance agency priorities, the Human Foods Program respectfully declines your request for a meeting at this time, though we remain open to dialogue with the raw milk industry,' Donald Prater, principal deputy director of the FDA's Human Foods Program, wrote in response. The FDA didn't respond to a request for comment. Kelsey Barefoot of Dunn, North Carolina, who became a raw milk producer in 2021, said, 'It's our basic human right to be able to have the freedom to choose our food.' As a former critical care nurse, Barefoot was taught about the dangers of raw milk, but she said she was won over after she tried it herself. 'I had been prepared to think that raw milk was going to kill me,' Barefoot said. 'I started drinking it. I loved it. I didn't die, and my kids drank it, and so I started producing the milk for myself.' She now works for the Raw Milk Institute, founded by McAfee, which seeks to support 'low-risk raw milk production' through safety standards and testing protocols, including test results that are publicly posted. The advocates haven't given up on Kennedy, bolstered by the MAHA movement's push to eradicate food dyes and other top concerns. It may just take more time for him to come around, McAfee said. 'It's really, really crowded with people trying to saturate him. He's trying to sort things out.' Sally Fallon Morell, founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit alternative nutrition organization, said she first spoke with Kennedy about milk in 2021, when she was seated next to him at the foundation's annual holistic health conference, held that year in Texas. She said Kennedy recalled drinking raw milk when he was a child and said he wished he were drinking it again but wasn't sure where to find it. Morell directed him to a website her foundation had set up, which had a searchable database of raw milk purveyors. The following year, Kennedy was invited to speak at the same conference. 'Since I was here last year, I only drink raw milk,' he said from the stage. The audience burst into applause. This article was originally published on
