Slowly, but surely, nutritional orthodoxy of the past few decades is being discredited in favour of age-old choices. According to new research by the University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston) (UTHealth), enjoying full-fat milk, yogurt, cheese and butter is good, after all! The study, published on 11 July 2018 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found no significant link between dairy fats and heart disease and stroke, often associated with high intake of saturated fat. It may be remembered that coconut oil is another item high in saturated fat, which used to be demonised once, but is now lauded as a super-food.
According to the study, certain types of dairy fat may help guard against a severe stroke. According to Marcia Otto the study's first and corresponding author and assistant professor in the department of epidemiology, human genetics and environmental sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health, “Our findings not only support, but also significantly strengthen, the growing body of evidence which suggests that dairy fat, contrary to popular belief, does not increase risk of heart disease or overall mortality in older adults. In addition to not contributing to death, the results suggest that one fatty acid present in dairy may lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease, particularly from stroke.”
The study evaluated the link between fatty acid present in dairy and heart disease and related it over a 22-year period. For the study, about 3,000 adults of 65 years and older, who had three types of fatty acids, were tested at the beginning in 1992 and again after six years and 13 years. This methodology, as opposed to the self-reported consumption, which is more common, gave a better insight into the long-term exposure to these fatty acids, according to the report. None of the fatty acid types was associated with total mortality in a statistically significant way. One type of fatty acid was linked to lower cardiovascular disease deaths! People, who consumed more whole-fat dairy products, had a 42% lower risk of dying from stroke.
All this undermines the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (copied in many parts of the worlds) which recommends serving fat-free or low-fat dairy, including milk, cheese, yogurt, and/or fortified soy beverages. What nutritionists and doctors are unaware of, or don’t care about, is that low-fat dairy foods, often, include added sugars which may affect cardiovascular and metabolic health.
Whole-fat dairy foods are rich sources of calcium and potassium which are essential for health. Dr Otto said: “Consumers have been exposed to so much different and conflicting information about diet, particularly in relation to fats, that it is important to have robust studies, so people can make more balanced and informed choices based on scientific fact rather than hearsay.”
I congratulate Moneylife to bring in the topic into discussion. Can we get more authentic / research based facts directly from published papers avoiding data from You tube / other internet sources who never take responsibility of published data?
Also remember that many "studies" are biased, lack data or objectivity, have statistical and method errors - even those conducted by US/EU universities.
Many jump to wrong conclusions, especially those funded by Dairy/Meat/Egg industry in the west.
Milk of cows is designed for calves. Milk of another species is unnecessary for human health. Milk is full of sat-fats, anti-biotics, white blood cells (yeah, pus cells) and IGF-1 which is the precursor to various cancers. Cow's milk's role in Type-1 Diabetes is well documented.
Cheese is good? What next? Cigarettes are healthy?
PLEASE DON'T SPREAD SUCH WRONG MESSAGES.
Dairy is unethical during "production", unnecessary for human health and ecological disaster (Dairy & meat production). Please watch the video by Joseph Keon - Whitewashed on youtube.
Thumps up to your views and articles.
Kindly go through some articles related to Low Carb and High Fat (LCHF) diet. Fats are that much villain as you said? You compared it to cigaretes, please do a thorough study about fats..
Humans belong to the primate category. We don't handle meat very well, if at all. Unlike cats big & small and other true carnivores.
Watch this video wrt Ketodiets (LCHF is more or less same thing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS2F4B4ZT3Q
Todays grains are devoid of nutrition because of pesticides and GM. Also vegetable oils are highly processed to make them fit for consumption. Watch " butter makes my pants fall off" on youtube to get a better insight on how the human body reacts to saturated fats.