A study highlights the benefits of milk, cheese or yogurt, specialists insist that their fats seem to have beneficial properties.
'It is not fat, stupid,' it could be said manipulating the famous phrase of Bill Clinton's electoral campaign in 1992. Because in nutrition studies it is increasingly clear that it does not matter so much fat in itself, as its origin, to its origin, toThe time to determine its health effects.The last evidence in this line indicates that the consumption of dairy, rich in fats of animal origin, can have protective effects against type 2 diabetes.
It is not the first time that a study, for example, indicates the benefits of yogurt against this pathology, but on this occasion, the advantages are extrapolable to other dairy.
The results come from extensive Swedish research that has been announced during the annual meeting of the European Society for the study of diabetes that is being held in Vienna (Austria).With the data of almost 27,000 individuals from 45 to 74, followed for 14 years, the Ulika Ericson team (from the University of Lund, in Sweden) made a mathematical model to study the influence of the diet in the 2,860 cases of diabetesType 2 diagnosed in this period.
Those subjects with greater consumption of entire dairy products had an incidence of diabetes by 23% lower than that of individuals who less milk, yogurts and cream ate;although curiously this same protection was not observed with skim or low -fat products.
Although the details of the study have not yet been published in any scientific journal, by breaking down the effect by different types of dairy in the press release released from the Congress, the authors specify the benefits of the cream and whole milk (with aFat percentage around 3%).Specifically, they explain, 10% of consumers who drank around 180 milliliters daily of whole milk, had 20% less risk of diabetes than 60% of those who did not include this product in their diet.
Specialists clarify that these effects are not applicable to any type of fat of animal origin, since in the case of red meat there was an increase in the risk of diabetes.However, in the case of saturated fats of animal origin present in dairy products, there is some mechanism that could explain its beneficial profile for health.
In fact, some previous works, mostly carried out with yogurt, have suggested that these foods have a beneficial action on bacterial flora whose anti -inflammatory effect could have a positive impact against type 2 diabetes.
But it does not seem the only mechanism, in a review published this summer in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Arne Astrup - from the University of Copenhagen - pointed out that calcium and other ingredients of cheese, milk or yogurt could have effectsPositive in several cardiovascular risk factors, such as insulin resistance, blood pressure or even obesity -all of them determining in the appearance of type 2 diabetes.
As her Swedish colleague points out, professor Ericson, everything indicates more and more clearly that it cannot be generalized when talking about fats of animal origin, and those that are specifically found in dairy products can have a role inthe prevention of certain metabolic diseases.
