Old news is new again – dairy fat is beneficial for our health

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In the US, our kids can’t get full-fat milk in public school. There is plenty of non-fat chocolate milk, but there is no full-fat milk. We can all say “thank you” to the dietary guidelines for that policy. One could presume that to make such a sweeping and penetrating recommendation, there must be conclusive evidence documenting the harm of full-fat dairy. That is far from the truth. In fact, there is a mounting body of evidence that dairy consumption, even full-fat dairy, is not harmful and may even be beneficial for health. To be fair, these studies tend to be weak, observational studies and suffer from confounding variables, healthy-user bias, food-frequency questionnaires, and other methodological short fallings. Yet, even weak evidence should be enough to call into question a guideline that has no higher quality evidence to back it. Some of these studies, however, use blood levels of particular saturated fatty acids (that are defined based on the number of carbon...
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