Replacing one serving of red meat per day with one serving of low-fat dairy would reduce the risk of death by an estimated 10% over 22 to 28 years according to two studies analyzed by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Replacing one serving of red meat per day with one serving of whole grains would reduce the risk of death by an estimated 14% over 22 to 28 years according to two studies analyzed by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

Obese men and women who replaced two meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from skim milk powder, lost an average of 24.2 pounds in six months according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Obese men and women who for the first six (6) months replaced two (2) meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from skim milk powder, and then for the next six (6) months replaced one (1) meal per day, lost an average of 23.8 pounds in one (1) year according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

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The one-fourth of people with the highest levels of byproducts from dairy fat had a 46% lower risk of diabetes over about 15 years compared to the one-fourth of people with the lowest according to analysis of the blood of 3,333 adults in the Nurses’ Health Study of Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.

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One Tablespoon of butter per day is associated with a 1% increase in total mortality according to a recent meta-analysis of previous studies by researchers from Tufts University and Stanford School of Medicine.

“This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD [cardiovascular disease], and diabetes,” the paper concludes. “These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities.”

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One Tablespoon of butter per day is not associated with cardiovascular disease according to a recent meta-analysis of previous studies by researchers from Tufts University and Stanford School of Medicine.

“This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD [cardiovascular disease], and diabetes,” the paper concludes. “These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities.”

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One Tablespoon of butter per day is not associated with coronary heart disease according to a recent meta-analysis of previous studies by researchers from Tufts University and Stanford School of Medicine.

There was a 1% lower risk of coronary heart disease associated with consuming one Tablespoon of butter per day, but the difference was not statistically significant, meaning that this difference could have been due to random chance.

“This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD [cardiovascular disease], and diabetes,” the paper concludes. “These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities.”

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One Tablespoon of butter per day is associated with a 4% lower risk of diabetes according to a recent meta-analysis of previous studies by researchers from Tufts University and Stanford School of Medicine.

“This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD [cardiovascular disease], and diabetes,” the paper concludes. “These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities.”

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One Tablespoon of butter per day is not associated with stroke according to a recent meta-analysis of previous studies by researchers from Tufts University and Stanford School of Medicine.

There was a 1% higher risk of stroke associated with consuming one Tablespoon of butter per day, but the difference was not statistically significant, meaning that this difference could have been due to random chance.

“This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD [cardiovascular disease], and diabetes,” the paper concludes. “These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities.”

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Women with a high milk consumption who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day and less than one serving of fruits and vegetables were 2.8 times more likely to die over some number of years compared to women with a low milk consumption who consumed less than one glass of milk per day according to a study that analyzed data from food frequency questionnaires completed by 61,420 women in a Swedish cohort (1987–1990 baseline) and 36,714 women from a second survey (1997).

“Dietary antioxidant intake [from fruits and vegetables], especially in women, seems to modify the elevated death rate associated with high milk consumption,” the authors of the study concluded.

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Women with a high milk consumption who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day and 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables were 1.6 times more likely to die over some number of years compared to women with a low milk consumption who consumed less than one glass of milk per day according to a study that analyzed data from food frequency questionnaires completed by 61,420 women in a Swedish cohort (1987–1990 baseline) and 36,714 women from a second survey (1997).

“Dietary antioxidant intake [from fruits and vegetables], especially in women, seems to modify the elevated death rate associated with high milk consumption,” the authors of the study concluded.

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Men with a high milk consumption who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day and less than one serving of fruits and vegetables were 31% more likely to die over some number of years compared to men with a low milk consumption who consumed less than one glass of milk per day according to a study that analyzed data from food frequency questionnaires completed by 45,280 Swedish men (1998 baseline).

“Dietary antioxidant intake [from fruits and vegetables], especially in women, seems to modify the elevated death rate associated with high milk consumption,” the authors of the study concluded.

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Men with a high milk consumption who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day and 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables were 7% more likely to die over some number of years compared to men with a low milk consumption who consumed less than one glass of milk per day according to a study that analyzed data from food frequency questionnaires completed by 45,280 Swedish men (1998 baseline).

“Dietary antioxidant intake [from fruits and vegetables], especially in women, seems to modify the elevated death rate associated with high milk consumption,” the authors of the study concluded.

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Drinking two servings of milk per day reduced the risk of obesity in both middle-school girls by 19 percent according to a study from researchers at the University of Michigan.

This effect was not seen in boys.

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"Milk also has the peculiar property of enhancing the potency of vitamin D," according to a wonderful book published in 1980 called "Sunlight Could Save Your Life" by Zane Kime, MD.

Adding 90 IU's of vitamin D to milk had a greater effect than adding 10X this much to cod liver oil. Many experts in the past have recommended that vitamin D should NOT be added to milk and other foods.

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Eating a high-dairy diet versus a low-dairy diet increases weight loss by 2-3 lbs if you restricting calories according to data from 10 studies. Read the entire article | Email this article

Eating a high-dairy diet does NOT cause weight loss if you are not restricting calories according to data from 6 studies. When comparing the body weight of those on a high-dairy diet versus those on a low-dairy diet, those on a high-dairy diet GAINED 0.7 pounds. Read the entire article | Email this article

Dairy and dairy calcium have been promoted as increasing weight loss and fat loss according to research supported by the Dairy Management, a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture which was created to help to sell more dairy, milk and cheese. However, this research appears to be bogus, and other researchers have found no evidence of weight loss according to an article in the New York Times. Read the entire article | Email this article

When Jean Harvey-Berino, chairwoman of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, did a study paid for by Dairy Management, a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture which was created to help to sell more dairy, milk and cheese, but found "a high-dairy calcium diet does not substantially improve weight loss beyond what can be achieved in a behavioral intervention", Dairy Management took the news poorly, threatening to audit her work according to an article in the New York Times. Read the entire article | Email this article

“If you want to look at why people are fat today, it’s pretty hard to identify a contributor more significant than this meteoric rise in cheese consumption,” Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an advocacy group, said in an interview as quoted in an article in the New York Times about how dairy was promoted for weight loss, but the claims appear to be not true. Read the entire article | Email this article

Between 1977-78 and 1999-2001, "Overall, energy intake from [milk] was reduced by 38%," according to a paper by researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the entire article | Email this article

Between 1977-78 and 1999-2001, "Overall, energy intake from sweetened beverages [including a 38% reduction in calories from milk resulted in]... a 278 total calorie increase," according to a paper by researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the entire article | Email this article

"I have seen transformations [out of depression] faster than almost anything else we do "[ by eliminating foods that people are allergic to. ]" notes Joan Mathews Larson, PhD in this video clip. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Glycomacropeptide is a peptide that has been shown to stimulate release of cholecystokinin [CCK], which may promote satiety," a new study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, Australia starts out.

However, people did not lose more weight when given glycomacropeptide-enriched whey protein power to use as a meal replacment than those given skim milk powder.

In fact, those given glycomacropeptide-enriched whey protein powder as meal replacements lost 2 pounds less than those given skim milk powder as a meal replacement -- a weight loss of roughly 22 pounds versus 24 pounds.
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Among U.S. children, 6- to 11-years-old, milk consumption dropped by an average of 39 percent from 1977 to 2001 according to a report titled F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008 from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women consumed an average of 104 more calories at a meal when they were given a caloric beverage containing 156 calories to drink with the meal of either cola, orange juice or low-fat milk containing 1 percent fat than when they were given a non-caloric beverage of either a diet soda, water or no beverage according to a study by Barbara Rolls and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

In other words, liquid calories tend not to reduce calorie intake the way that solid food does. This has been shown in numerous other studies as well.

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Rats fed a high-fat diet gained less weight and less body fat when lactose (milk sugar) was added to their diet according to a new study from researchers at Japan Women's University in Tokyo. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children who consume more animal protein, especially dairy protein, at the age of 1-year and 5- to 6-years-old have higher levels of body fat at the age of 7 than those who consume less according to a new study from researchers at the Research Institute of Child Nutrition at the University of Bonn in Dortmund, Germany. Read the entire article | Email this article

Milk can no longer be advertised or marketed in the U.S. as a way of helping you lose weight according to a letter dated May 3rd, 2007 sent from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) who has looked into the matter as being a false advertising claim. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children who consume the least dairy weighed roughly 8-12 pounds more by early adolescence than children who consume the most according to a new study from researchers at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read the entire article | Email this article

People who consume the most dairy are least likely to have a large waist, least likely to have high blood pressure, and least likely to have metabolic syndrome according to a study from Iran. Read the entire article | Email this article

Overweight and obese men in Portugal are less likely to drink milk than normal weight men according to a new study, suggesting that milk may help to prevent obesity. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children 6- to 11-years-old drank four times as much milk as any other beverage in 1977-1978, but only 1.5 times as much milk as soft drinks by 1994-1996 according to the Institute of Medicine's report on Childhood Obesity (2004, p. 33). Read the entire article | Email this article

Americans are consuming 135 percent more sweetened beverages, 38 percent less milk and 278 more calories than we did in 1977-1978 according to a new study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Children who consume more milk and dairy products are leaner than those who consume less. Read the entire article | Email this article