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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: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:33PM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday January 25 2020, @06:33PM (#948544) Journal

    I can't stand straight milk; but I like ice cream, cheese, etc.

    So drink 3.25% - it's called homo milk on your sales receipt printout for a reason ;-p

    Goat milk is also tasty. But for some reason, people won't even try it ... must be the name. We literally could not give it away when we were given hundreds of litres to distribute.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @07:33PM (#948572)

    Goat milk has higher fat content and therefore a stronger taste. Warm goat milk sooth stomach.

  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:27AM (1 child)

    by istartedi (123) on Sunday January 26 2020, @01:27AM (#948693) Journal

    Fat content is irrelevant to me--I can't stand the taste of straight milk. It literally makes me want to puke. Once I got to be old enough to refuse it, I did--I had a big fight with my parents and everything. What would be the point of trying goat milk? I don't feel like I'm missing anything by not drinking cow milk. It's not like alcohol where you go to a milk party and feel left out.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:17AM (#949755)

      Oh, oh wow. Now I'm picturing a milk party, and I TOTALLY do not want to be left out.

      Why would you do this to me? Giving me this idea that can never, ever be materialized?

      *sobs*