Eating three generous servings of dairy products every day – including cheese and butter – leads to a longer, healthier life, a new study suggests.
After analyzing the diets of over 130,000 people in two dozen countries, scientists found that eating around 8.6 ounces of full-fat yogurt or milk, and 0.6 ounces of cheese or butter could significantly lower the risk of heart disease.
Newsweek.com reports: The findings, published in The Lancet, contradict dietary recommendations that advise against consuming full-fat dairy products. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s dietary guidelines for 2015 to 2020, for instance, suggest eating fat-free or low-fat dairy in its key recommendations.
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Mahshid Dehghan, an investigator at the Nutrition Epidemiology program at the Population Health Research Institute of McMaster University and lead author of the study, told Newsweek: “PURE is the first multination study from low, middle and high income countries that assessed association between dairy intake and risk of clinical outcomes. We are providing new evidence and suggesting that moderate consumption of dairy might be beneficial specifically in low and middle income countries where dairy intake is low.”
Researchers at McMaster University evaluated information on 136,384 volunteers between the age of 35 to 70 from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study. At the start of the study, the participants filled out questionnaires about their diets. Researchers revisited the participants nine years later. In that time, 6,796 participants had died, and 5,855 had had heart attacks or other cardiovascular events.
The volunteers were divided into four categories: those who ate more than two servings of dairy per day; one to two servings; one serviing; and no dairy at all. Most people fell into the one serving group.
Participants in North America and Europe ate the most dairy at 368 grams (about 13 ounces) a day, or more than four servings. In contrast, respondents in Southeast Asia ate as little as 37 grams (about 0.25 ounces) per day.
Those who consumed the most whole-fat dairy, 3.2 servings per day on average, had lower mortality rates at 3.3 percent from the baseline and a 3.7 percent risk of developing cardiovascular disease. But those who ate less than 0.5 servings of dairy had a total mortality rate of 44.4 percent, and a risk of cardiovascular disease at 5 percent.
Because the study was observational, it has its limits. The scientists could only infer that eating dairy might prevent heart disease or lower a person’s risk of early death, and other explanations could account for the results. Further research is needed to answer what made these patterns surface from the data.
Still, Dehghan explained current recommendations on low-fat dairy products focus on the presumed harms of saturated fatty acids on one cardiovascular risk marker (LDL cholesterol), as well as concerns about higher calories in higher fat foods.
“Dairy products contain a range of potentially beneficial compounds including specific amino acids, medium-chain and odd-chain saturated fats, milk fat globule phospholipids, unsaturated and branched-chain fats, natural trans fats, vitamin K1/K2, and calcium, and can further be fermented or contain probiotics, many of which may also affect health outcomes,” she said. The potential health benefits of dairy products should therefore not be disregarded because of a single risk marker of fatty acids, she argued.
Still, the authors said that current attitudes toward dairy products that stem from the belief that saturated fats are wholly harmful to cardiovascular health may need to be revisited. The potential benefits of compounds found in dairy products, such as certain amino acids, vitamins K1 and K2, calcium, magnesium, potassium and some probiotics warrant further investigation.
Emer Delaney, a qualified dietitian and British Dietetic Association spokesperson, told Newsweek: “The results are really interesting as they support the use of full-fat dairy products in cardiovascular disease as opposed to low fat or fat-free, which current guidelines advise.”
But, she said, “much more research is needed before any major guidelines or recommendations are changed.”
Commenting on dairy consumption generally, she said: “It’s not advisable for people to reduce their intake of lower-fat options if they are concerned. Similarly, people shouldn’t take the results to excess and eat as much dairy as they like.”
“Full-fat products are still high in calories and, like everything else, can cause weight gain if eaten to excess. Eating two to three portions of calcium-rich foods a day is the recommendation for a healthy adult. Also this study looked at cardiovascular disease only and readers need to remember that.”
Ian Givens, a professor of food-chain nutrition at Reading University, who was not involved in the study, told Newsweek: “The study will add to the suggestion that dietary guidelines should consider foods as well as nutrients. It also adds weight to the evidence that saturated fats from dairy [probably apart from butter] are not associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk, unlike some other sources.”
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
but it wont pay the rental on your humble flat or help you at the laundromat
More of the truth coming out – it’s great. We’ve been lied to and deceived about everything by the evil NWO cabal. So happy many are learning the facts that all their pharma products are poisons designed to harm, destroy, alter DNA and kill…NOT to help or cure.
Personally, I disagree. I did a bunch of reading about nutrition on the Internet. I found a whole list of diseased methods in modern false-farming that was disgusting. I read animal protein feeds cancer. I read that dairy causes the body to produce an extra gallon of mucous. I read dairy produces acid in the body. I personally suffered with disgusting tonsil stones sporadically in my life. Since backing way down on dairy they are much less disgusting. I read the bacteria and protein from animal products causes their formation. I now get most my fat from coconut oil and olive oil. I also started purchasing flax oil. While I wean off animal products I am choosing to eat wild fish. If animals were being farmed in their natural thriving environments it may be a different story. I read stress creates a byproduct chemical called adrenochrome. I personally saw videos of machines that were built to torture the animals before slaughter because there is a demand for adrenaline rich meat. This byproduct chemical is stated to be linked to insanity. Get quality non-processed fat.
yes this is true, but you have to aviod eating starches, sugars, breads, potatoes.
beef, butter, leafy vegetables, cheese, aged cheeses are much better.
If you continue to eat carbohydrate in quantity, this will give you all kinds of health problems.
milk has sugar in it, it is much better to drink heavy cream, as strange and wrong as it sounds. but true.
use heavy cream in your coffee, rather than skim milk or regular milk. read the lable, they have sugar in them.
Sugar is what you need to avoid.
I went zero sugar, and starch bascally cut out carbohydrates99% and my weight came down, no excercise, and I feel great. flexibility came back. feeling good.
you have to cut out the carbohydrates drastically. If you do this you can reverse prediabetes. I have been on a zero carb diet for 6 months, it can be done, when you get used to it, it is easy. order a cheese burger and throw the bun and french frys away. order the double patty, and the salad.