According to a Swedish study that was just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, it may be better for you to drink whole milk and eat full-fat cheese than to avoid them if you want to avoid excess weight gain. It also found that there was no benefit, in terms of the size of the waistline, to drinking low fat milk instead. This appears to be especially true if you are a woman, because the study looked at the eating habits of over 19,000 middle-aged Swedish women over the course of 9 years.
The problems with the study, although it is certainly encouraging for those who don't like to get their lattes with skim milk, is that it doesn't seem to take everything into account. For example, the women in the study were of average weight (meaning that they were not overweight) when the study began, suggesting that they might already have some healthy-eating strategies in place to compensate for intake of milk.
One of the lead researchers in the study also pointed out that it was possible that weight gain prompted women to switch to low fat milk from whole milk, so that fat-content of the milk was a result of a weight gain, not the other way around. Finally, there was no comparison point for cheese, so it wasn't entirely clear how (or if) it interacted with milk consumption.Researchers associated with the study said that, as of now, there is not yet enough evidence to say that high-fat dairy is necessarily better for you or will definitely lead to weight loss/stability and that there is no reason to avoid lower-fat dairy products, especially if you are concerned about saturated fat intake. What it does indicate is that higher fat foods are not necessarily bad for you and that when enjoyed in moderation, they can easily be a part of a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle.
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