Following 74,961 Swedish adults for a decade, Larsson's team found those in the top quintile of low-fat dairy intake were 12 percent less likely to have a stroke and 13 percent less likely to suffer a cerebral infarction. Total dairy, full-fat dairy, milk, cheese and cream showed no link.
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Corrected: Got acne? Avoid dairy products!
B. Melnik reports that acne is far less common among people eating a low-glycaemic palaeolithic diet without dairy, that two randomized trials support low-glycaemic-load diets as treatment, and that milk appears to drive acne through mTORC1 signalling.
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Dairy Products Do Not Promote Bone Health
Tracking adolescent girls for seven years, researchers found no protection against stress fractures from dairy or calcium. Among girls exercising more than an hour a day, the highest calcium intakes came with more than double the fracture risk. Vitamin D did help: the highest intakes halved it.
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Dairy products may raise cancer risk
Oxford's Timothy Key reports that blood IGF-1 tracks with breast and prostate cancer risk and that high dairy protein intake raises IGF-1. He cites work linking five or more daily servings of dairy to a 65% higher prostate cancer risk.
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High intake of calcium, dairy products boosts prostate cancer risk
A review links high calcium intake from food and supplements to advanced or fatal prostate cancer. Among 783 black men, those reporting the highest calcium intake were twice as likely to have localized and advanced disease, and genotype appeared to shape how much the risk rose.
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Health Concerns about Dairy Products
The piece marshals evidence against dairy for bone health: a 2005 Pediatrics review found milk did not improve children's bone integrity, and the Harvard Nurses' Health Study, following 72,000 women for 18 years, found no protective effect on fracture risk.
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Eating yogurt may cut cardiovascular risk
Among 1,080 Australian women over 70, those eating more than 100 grams of yogurt a day had significantly lower carotid artery wall thickness three years later, while total dairy, milk and cheese showed no association. The study was observational, not a trial.
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Dairy foods not linked to heart attack
Brown University's Stella Aslibekyan compared dairy fat biomarkers and heart attacks among 3,630 middle-aged Costa Ricans and found no statistically significant effect, with components such as vitamin D, calcium, potassium and CLA possibly protective.
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Aluminum foil, containers and cookware may contaminate dairy products
A Journal of Food Science study found 65% of market milk samples carried aluminum above permissible limits, with processed cheese wrapped in foil reaching 428% of the provisional tolerable daily intake. The authors call the levels a health hazard.
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Want to grow taller? Eat lots of dairy products
Oxford's T.J. Key reports that men and women with high dairy protein intake carry higher circulating IGF-1, which plays a role in cancer and diabetes. An earlier Greek study of 795 children aged 10 to 11 tied four extra dairy servings a week to 0.4 cm more height in carriers of one IGF variant.
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The skinny on diabetes and dairy fats
A study of 3,736 adults aged 65 and older in the Annals of Internal Medicine found people reporting more whole-fat dairy had higher blood trans-palmitoleate three years later, and those with higher levels showed better cholesterol markers and were less likely to have developed diabetes.
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Dairy products may lower diabetes risk
Among 3,736 Cardiovascular Health Study participants followed 20 years, those with the highest baseline trans-palmitoleic acid were 60 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes and had healthier cholesterol, inflammation and insulin measures. The study is observational, not causal.
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Why Grass Fed Dairy Products Are Better for You
Only 10 to 15 percent of US dairy farms are pasture-based, but Mercola argues grazing cuts fuel use, erosion and pollution, and that milk from pastured cows has repeatedly tested higher in vitamin E, beta-carotene, omega-3 and CLA. Pastured cows are also culled less often.
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Dairy Atrocities Provoke New Laws, Dumped Suppliers
An undercover video shot for Mercy For Animals at New York's largest dairy shows a worker gouging calves' eye sockets while burning off horn buds, and cows left to suffer without veterinary care. Leprino Foods dropped the farm as a supplier at one plant; a state ban on tail docking was proposed.
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