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Got Milk? Kids Who Eat More Dairy Live Longer

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(Newser) – A new study suggests that children who eat more dairy products live longer lives, the BBC reports. Researchers followed up a 1930s study of childhood diets and found that those who had diets rich in milk, butter, and cheese had lower mortality rates from strokes and other causes. The children with high dairy intakes were not likelier to suffer heart disease, despite their higher fat and cholesterol intake.

Those with the highest dairy intake were 23% more likely to still be alive today than those with the lowest intake, researchers found. Experts said that while the study highlights the importance of including calcium-rich foods in a balanced diet, the results should be treated with caution. They pointed out that the children who ate more dairy products tended to come from wealthier families and so had better overall diets.

A customer looks at milk on display at a store in Palo Alto, Calif.
A customer looks at milk on display at a store in Palo Alto, Calif.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
The British study appears to back the practice of giving extra milk to schoolchildren, experts said.
The British study appears to back the practice of giving extra milk to schoolchildren, experts said.   (AP Photo/David Richard)
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The more milk and calcium the children consumed the lower their mortality. It is possible that there is an influence of milk drinking on hormonal or growth factors that set you up to be better off in the long term. - Richard Martin, lead author of the study

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UrUndertaker
Jul 28, 09 7:13 AM CDT
Must be all the growth hormones they feed the cattle giving a side benefit along with rapid physical maturity it provides for young women.......... Reply
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Toon
Jul 28, 09 2:26 PM CDT
No this was a study of kids in the 1930's and all it tells us is that the rich kids both ate more dairy and lived longer.
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DeniseVB
Jul 28, 09 7:15 AM CDT
What about all those artificial additivess and growth hormones? I doubt they were around in the 1930's. Reply
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UrUndertaker
Jul 28, 09 7:28 AM CDT
The growth hormone Posilac was first used in Dairy cattle in 1937, they use Bovine somatotropin or bST now actually but yes, it was going on even way back then now it is just a new chemical
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Unaffiliated
Jul 28, 09 8:45 AM CDT
Humans weren't meant to drink cow's (sheep's, goat's, camel's) milk. That's why many people are lactose intolerant. They don't have the enzyme (lactase) necessary to digest lactose. We've only been drinking the milk of other mammals for maybe 9000 years. That's just not long enough for our species to adapt to the new diet. Reply
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