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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.

-- submitted from IRC

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: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:11PM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:11PM (#948531) Journal

    I too like milk a lot -- always have. I also find it helps me not over eat. Most days I have a mug of milk (12 to 16 oz) after one serving of dinner and when I'm finished with the milk, I feel completely satisfied. In contrast, especially with a carb heavy meal like pasta, I will continue to feel hungry and keep on eating if I don't have the milk. Milk is like desert but without all the refined sugar and carbs and it somehow, for me, it makes a rationally sized meal as filling as Thanksgiving.

    Then there's the thing where for decades we've been told to cut out the fat and as it turns out, that was terrible advice. I've decided to just eat what my body wants and not worry about it so long as I'm not obese.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:12PM (#948533) Journal

    And yes, I drink whole milk. It's fucking ambrosia.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:41AM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:41AM (#948753) Homepage Journal

      5 to 10% Cream isn't bad either. Especially with blueberries. Though after a while it starts to seem too much and I'm back to whole milk without blueberries. 35% cream is almost immediately too much.