Once again, sloppy health reporting. I read the original study and know how to interpret it.
1. Higher dairy intake was associated with higher household income and also higher fruit and vegetable consumption. So all the benefits could have come from having more fruits and vegetables. In short, those with a better diet as children had greater longevity.
2. The study attributes the better health mostly to the higher intake of calcium. Newsflash: Dairy is not a synonym for calcium. It’s calcium you need, not dairy, and there are healthier and more absorbable sources of it than milk. They do this shit with red wine all the time. Telling us a glass a day is good for the heart. No. The chemical resveratrol, which is present in red grape skins, is what is good for the heart. The alcohol part is bad on every level. So a responsible medical system and health reporting would tell us to eat more red grapes, or take a resveratrol supplement, not drink a glass of wine a day just because an otherwise poison has one good thing in it and because people only want to hear how some of their unhealthy habits are really good for them.
3. The same research team from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia, led by Dr. Jolieke C. van der Pols, using the same study, reported in 2007 that those who grew up in families with the highest levels of dairy consumption had close to three times the risk of colorectal cancer compared with those from families reporting the lowest intake. Why isn’t that mentioned in this latest article? I smell a link to the dairy industry.
High dairy in childhood linked with cancer risk | Reuters