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Saturday, 16 April 2016 12:48

Reprieve for full-fat?

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For years you’ve been told to go for skim over full-fat dairy.

Even the latest dietary guidelines for Americans urge people to avoid full fat, and following this lead, school lunches contain only low-fat milk or no whole milk at all, even though they allow chocolate skim milk with its added sugars. But large population studies into possible links between full-fat dairy consumption, weight and disease risk are now questioning that advice. And some research suggests people who consume full-fat dairy weigh less and are less likely to develop diabetes.

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