For years you’ve been told to go for skim over full-fat dairy. Even
the latest dietary guidelines for Americans urge people to avoid the
full fat, and following this lead, school lunch programs provide only
low-fat milk and no whole milk at all, even though they do allow
chocolate skim milk with its added sugars. But large population studies
that look at possible links between full-fat dairy consumption, weight
and disease risk are starting to call that advice into question. And
some research suggests people who consume full-fat dairy weigh less and
are less likely to develop diabetes, too.
MORE: Why Full-Fat Dairy May Be Healthier Than Low-Fat
In a new study published in the journal Circulation, Dr.
Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleagues analyzed the blood of 3,333
adults enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study of Health Professionals
Follow-up Study taken over about 15 years. They found that people who
had higher levels of three different byproducts of full-fat dairy had,
on average, a 46% lower risk of getting diabetes during the study period
than those with lower levels. “I think these findings together with
those from other studies do call for a change in the policy of
recommending only low-fat dairy products,” says Mozaffarian. “There is
no prospective human evidence that people who eat low-fat dairy do
better than people who eat whole-fat dairy.”
Interesting, isn't it? My advice to patients for the past 28 years has been and continues to be to eat healthy fats, especially with vegetables...the body cannot fully assimilate vegetable nutrients without fat. Fat in dairy (if you are going to eat dairy) is essential for the body to utilize calcium...so much for drinking skim milk (my father used to call that, "Grade D Whitewash." We also know that eating medium chain triglycerides (Coconut fat) is thermogenic and helps reduce fat in the body. It's about time that the medical profession finally catches up!
Dr. Esther
fixdhealthcare.com
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