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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: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:54AM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 26 2020, @03:54AM (#948756) Homepage Journal

    Maybe I should try that.

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday January 26 2020, @06:03PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday January 26 2020, @06:03PM (#948935) Journal
    Hey, tasty tasty ...

    Also, the initial claim is based on telomeres being related to aging. Scott Kelly's telomeres were initially shorter than his twin brother Mark who stayed on earth. However, they've grown back to their normal length, something that was reported last night on the W5 investigative program on CBC in the context of whether it's even possible to get to Mars and return without suffering debilitating health effects.

    The short answer - just use robots. Cheaper, you don't have to keep them alive (powered up) all through the journey, and you can send a lot more for the same price. Plus you can work them until they die and nobody's going to say "bring back the body."

    Think of how many Mars rovers we could send to, say, the moon, to be worked in near-real-time from earth. People would pay to work a rover. Throw a couple hundred up there and crawl all over the place. Turn it into a game with a leader board and everything.

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  • (Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Monday January 27 2020, @05:46PM

    by SunTzuWarmaster (3971) on Monday January 27 2020, @05:46PM (#949425)
    Interestingly, "Light Yogurt" and "light beer" are on the "Millennials are killing this industry" list. The basic Millennials' response is "I don't pay for watered down goods!" The Millennial market for full-fat yogurt and extra-alcohol beer is alive and well.