Let’s Talk About Whole Milk
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Article written by:
Dr. Francisco Arroyo
Medical Director of SportsMed
Sports Medicine & Stem Cell Specialist
Medical | Regenerative Medicine
Studies that the diet with dietary fat from saturated fat contributes to reduce the risk of death.
Some time ago I spoke in a series of 3 articles about what whole milk represents for human beings who are not allergic to it, trying to remove the myths and leave only the real and verifiable facts from a scientific point of view, and now I write again about this liquid food to tell you what’s new in relation to milk. I personally can still drink whole milk and am not allergic to anything that contains dairy elements, so let’s see…
The current trend of some research is to show how some food groups have a protective influence against cardiovascular diseases and premature death and can be considered as good health diets but there is a cardio protective one that we do not know why it is not included and that is the dairy foods diet, yes, that’s right, it is the dairy diet.
The study is called the PURE study and was done in populations that included 240,000 people who consume the six food categories that are fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes, fish and the last one is dairy (European Heart Journal, author Andrew Mente, PhD, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).
The highest markers in the study correspond to a greater consumption of these six food groups and showed that they reduced the risk of death, heart attack and thromboembolism.
Why is this important? Well, simply because it contributes to removing some of the myths that have been put to dairy products and one of these is to prefer low-fat or fat-free dairy products, above dairy products with whole milk that are normally made by most nutritionists or marketing companies.
In addition, because this study also contributes to confirm what had been seen in previous studies that the diet with dietary fat from saturated fat contributes to reduce the risk of death.
The above in the words of the main author of the study means that: “the actions and guidelines in nutrition policy have to be updated with current scientific knowledge in order to create national and international strategies and policies and increase the number of protective foods.
And the author mentions this because, for example, the World Health Organization has a tendency to indicate that the consumption of fat, saturated fat, salt and sugar should be reduced, recommendations that are evidently followed by governments and food producers. It should be clarified that it is not that we are against the recommendations of the WHO but practical guidelines should be made such that, for example, in the case of dairy foods, drinking whole milk does not influence whether one has a higher risk of death.
Well, I’m going for my coffee with milk… whole milk. Good day.
Article written by:
Dr. Francisco Arroyo – Medical Director of SportMed