A study, which was published late March in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation, found that dairy fat may help prevent type 2 diabetes. The authors analyzed blood sample data from roughly 3,300 adults aged 30 to 70 years old in the late 1980s, the early 1990s, and again in 2010. “People who had the most dairy fat in their diet had about a 50 percent lower risk of diabetes,” the study’s coauthor Dariush Mozaffarian told NPR on Monday.
Previous research has shown that full-fat dairy is not necessarily tied to obesity or even a higher weight.
Pediatric doctor Mark DeBoer told NPR there might be other factors at play that contribute to these results. For example, full-fat dairy products may make you feel fuller than nonfat versions, which could cause you to eat fewer sugary foods and carbohydrates. Drinking whole milk, he said, “may be protective if the other food options are high in calories.”
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