Thursday, October 3, 2013

All the benefits of dairy products

MILAN - The question is simple . The food prices are soaring , the budget for your monthly spending soars , so you just have to spend every euro at best, trying foods with the best cost - benefit to our health. According to a special supplement of the official journal of the American College of Nutrition, to do that you have to put in the cart dairy products : are not overly expensive but provide valuable nutrients in quantity.

ADVANTAGES - The supplement is all dedicated to exploring the current knowledge on the effects of dairy foods on our health and closes with a recommendation : eat 3-4 servings of dairy a day to take advantage of the many health benefits they provide. The authors re-evaluating studies on the subject, have no doubts in stating that it is really valuable foods , despite the fact that even today often paint their milk and dairy foods as "dangerous" or unhealthy . Quite the contrary: for children and adolescents up to 18 years are invaluable for introducing the calcium and magnesium in sufficient quantities. Children who do not regularly consume dairy products, for example, reached an average of only 40 percent of the Introit should guarantee football . Dairy products are used for bone health , and specify the U.S. dietary guidelines , there is no supplement that takes : to have strong, healthy bones is much better to drink milk and eat cheese than resorting to supplements of calcium and vitamin D. Not enough dairy products have a positive effect on weight and body composition , and in the low-fat versions , they are one of the fundamental elements of diets to reduce cardiovascular risk .

MORTALITY - After such a slew of benefits, not surprising to find that some researchers from Cardiff University , in England, have just discovered that drinking milk prolongs life by reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart attack by 15-20 percent . Peter Elwood and Ian Givens have fleas to 324 research on the consumption of milk and its association with diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease, even going to evaluate the correlation between the use of milk and the appearance of tumors through the data of the World Cancer Research Fund Report. "The effect of milk on bone health is well known, less is known about the consequences on chronic diseases and mortality , or in other words if you drink milk lengthen life. Considering all the data available to date, we believe that it does - says Givens - . Consume milk reduces mortality from stroke , cardiovascular disease and cancers of the colon and rectum , there is no evidence , however, that favors the risk of getting some disease , if we exclude prostate cancer . All in all, therefore , we believe that drinking milk make you live longer and better, " concludes the researcher .

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