Study Suggests Milk is Actually Not Good for Bone Density
Study Suggests Milk is Actually Not Good for Bone Density – A new study suggests milk is not as good as we once thought. In a nearly 25 year study done by Uppsala University in Sweden, researchers found that people who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day had a higher risk of bone fracture and early death than those who didn’t.
Milk might just do a body “not so good.” Lead author of the study published in the British medical journal, Karl Michaelsson , of Sweden’s Uppsala University, studied bone fractures of over 100,000 Swedish men and women for nearly 25 years.
Michaelsson found that those who consumed 3 or more glasses of milk per day had a higher risk of bone fracture and death than those who didn’t. However, other yogurt products like cheese and yogurt did not indicate the same risk. Researchers said this may be because they’re fermented and, therefore, did not contain high amounts of D-galactose sugar, a breakdown product of lactose that has been shown to be pro-inflammatory that milk does.
Many researchers are calling into question the US government’s recommendation that people drink 3 cups of milk per day.
The Washington Post reports that since the 1970s, milk consumption in the US has dropped to roughly half, from 1.5 to 0.8 cups a day. Researchers are saying milk is being replaced by sugary soda, which causes its own problems.
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