Avoiding milk is associated with a reduced risk of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome
I hear frequently out in the community that the message of what’s good for you constantly changes, so what’s the point? While it seems that “experts” keep changing their minds, the research, over the decades, has consistently been against dairy.
The research that is not against dairy shows only a weak protective effect at best. And, quite frequently, this research is funded by the dairy industry. A perfect example was a recent study showing that dairy helped study participants lose more weight over the course of 6 months. All dairy ads rapidly began to tout this amazing benefit of dairy. What they didn’t mention was that the group with dairy lost an additional whopping–ah heck–I tried to find the exact number on PubMed but the first 20 or so articles showed no effect on weight. It was like, maybe 3 pound loss over 6 months..
