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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 25 2020, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-does-a-body-good-(in-small-doses) dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...]Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young University exercise science professor Larry Tucker, Ph.D., found people who drink low-fat milk experience several years less biological aging than those who drink high-fat (2% and whole) milk.

[...]Tucker investigated the relationship between telomere length and both milk intake frequency (daily drinkers vs. weekly drinkers or less) and milk fat content consumed (whole vs. 2% vs. 1% vs. skim). Telomeres are the nucleotide endcaps of human chromosomes. They act like a biological clock and they're extremely correlated with age; each time a cell replicates, humans lose a tiny bit of the endcaps. Therefore, the older people get, the shorter their telomeres.

And, apparently, the more high-fat milk people drink, the shorter their telomeres are, according to the new BYU study, published in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. The study revealed that for every 1% increase in milk fat consumed (drinking 2% vs. 1% milk), telomeres were 69 base pairs shorter in the adults studied, which translated into more than four years in additional biological aging. When Tucker analyzed the extremes of milk drinkers, adults who consumed whole milk had telomeres that were a striking 145 base pairs shorter than non-fat milk drinkers.

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Larry A. Tucker. Milk Fat Intake and Telomere Length in U.S. Women and Men: The Role of the Milk Fat Fraction. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, 2019; 2019: 1 DOI: 10.1155/2019/1574021


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:09PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @04:09PM (#948488)

    What you eat has absolutely nothing to do with obesity. Obesity is purely a function of how many calories you store versus burn. If you burn more than you eat, and engage in resistance training, you'll eventually stop being obese and will eventually starve to death if that continues. Diet is more about how long you can keep functioning on a particular set of foods .

    People who are obese are obese because they're consuming more than they burn. There are no exceptions.

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  • (Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:11PM

    by ElizabethGreene (6748) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 25 2020, @11:11PM (#948640) Journal

    You are both right and wrong.

    Yes, it is possible to literally starve anyone and they will lose weight.

    That said, implying that a calorie is a calorie is demonstrably false. We are just scratching the surface of understanding the impact of genetics, gut biome, and diet composition.

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:36AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:36AM (#948751) Homepage Journal

    It's not just how much you consume and burn. You also have to consider how much you shit, and what you shit.