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Study backs heart-healthy effect of dairy fat
Reuters on Yahoo ^
| 6/9/10
Posted on 06/09/2010 9:23:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Eating dairy foods could help protect your heart, new research from Sweden suggests.
Dairy foods are a major source of saturated fat in the diet, which has been associated with heart disease. However, there's some evidence that dairy foods could actually benefit heart health, for example by lowering blood pressure or reducing cholesterol levels, Dr. Eva Warensjo of Uppsala University and her colleagues note in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
To get a clearer sense of people's intake of fat from dairy and heart disease risk, Warensjo and her team measured blood levels of two biomarkers of milk fat in 444 heart attack patients and 556 healthy controls. The substances, pentadecanoic acid and heptadecanoic acid, indicate how much dairy fat a person has been eating.
The researchers found that people with the highest levels of milk fat biomarkers, suggesting they consumed the most dairy fat, were actually at lower risk of heart attack; for women, the risk was reduced by 26 percent, while for men risk was 9 percent lower.
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Dairy foods contain a number of potentially beneficial substances, such as calcium, vitamin D, and potassium, Warensjo and her team note. They have also been shown to increase people's levels of "good" HDL cholesterol.
"The exact mechanism behind these associations cannot be deduced from the present study, but the range of bioactive components present in the food matrix of milk products as well as associated lifestyle factors may all have contributed to the observed associations," the researchers conclude.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cheese; cholesterol; dairy; fat; foodnazis; health; hearthealthy; milk; milkfat; nutrition; study; sweden; wholemilk
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sounds good to me. I have never cut back usage.
To: NormsRevenge
I use cream in my coffee, and eat regular cheese.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:25:35 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: NormsRevenge
I put raw whole milk on my cereal every morning and eat yogurt made from the same milk every evening before bed. I am 60 and my total cholesterol is 142.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:26:54 AM PDT
by
SLB
(23rd Artillery Group, Republic of South Vietnam, Aug 1970 - Aug 1971.)
Hey, gimme back my cheese!
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:27:42 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
and No, that is not my sister.
Homemade cheese by Mrs Ida Tjärnberg at her mountain farm
in northern Sweden. 1958. Swedish National Heritage Board
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:29:42 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
The skim milk board is going to have a hissy...
So now ‘low-fat’ equals death...
(can’t wait for next week’s science!)
Julia Child had it right: Everything in Moderation.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:30:58 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: SLB
I miss fresh whole milk.. I was never so healthy as when I grew-up in farm country and ate real whole foods..
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:32:46 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
FORTY YEARS of anti-milk fat propaganda shot to hell!
Butter is gooood!
To: NormsRevenge
Ode to the Mammoth Cheese
By James McIntyre
We have seen the Queen of cheese, Laying quietly at your ease, Gently fanned by evening breeze -- Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
All gaily dressed soon you'll go To the great Provincial Show, To be admired by many a beau In the city of Toronto.
Cows numerous as a swarm of bees -- Or as the leaves upon the trees -- It did require to make thee please, And stand unrivalled Queen of Cheese.
May you not receive a scar as We have heard that Mr. Harris Intends to send you off as far as The great World's show at Paris.
Of the youth -- beware of these -- For some of them might rudely squeeze And bite your cheek; then songs or glees We could not sing o' Queen of Cheese.
We'rt thou suspended from baloon, You'd cast a shade, even at noon; Folks would think it was the moon About to fall and crush them soon.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:40:34 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
We used to haul fresh milk to the local creamery, brought curd hope for the pigs. I grew up on LandO’Lakes butter
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:40:47 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:42:29 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
To: NormsRevenge
I got a heck of a spanking one time over butter. I was churning milk in a glass churn with paddles and a hand crank. I had a pretty good sized ball of butter spinning around when I gave the handle a good hard sin and “BANG” the ball of butter got caught between the paddles and jar and broke the jar. I must have been around 5 or 6 when this happened.
We still use butter instead of margerine, Cabot Cheese from Wal Mart is the best sharp cheddar I have found.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:45:00 AM PDT
by
SLB
(23rd Artillery Group, Republic of South Vietnam, Aug 1970 - Aug 1971.)
To: NormsRevenge
It's CHEEEEESE, Gromit! Ohhhh, I could go for a nice Wensleydale! I'm just crackers about CHEESE!
To: NormsRevenge
My maternal grandparents lived to 96 and 94 while eating loads of milk, butter, eggs, cheese, bacon and red meat. I’ll follow their example.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:50:53 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
To: NormsRevenge
I have almost completely stopped drinking whole milk.
Since I discovered how great Half&Half tastes!
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:58:29 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/09/2010 10:00:46 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
To: libertarian27
The skim milk board is going to have a hissy... I watched a show on the Discovery Channel about milk and milk processing. It seems that early in the history of commercial processing, that skim milk, a by product of the process, was deemed unfit for human consumption and was used to feed hogs. I'm still of the same opinion.
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posted on
06/09/2010 10:01:30 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
To: trisham
"I use cream in my coffee, and eat regular cheese."
As opposed to non-regular cheese? [rimshot here]
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/09/2010 10:02:41 AM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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