Milk Does your Body Good?

According to a review study published in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics, scant evidence supports nutrition guidelines focused specifically on increasing milk or other dairy product intake for promoting child and adolescent bone mineralization. Of the 37 studies of dairy or unsupplemented dietary calcium intake, 27 studies found no relationship between dairy or dietary calcium intake and measures of bone health. In the remaining 9 reports, the effects on bone health are small and 3 were confounded by vitamin D intake from milk fortified with vitamin D. Therefore, in clinical, longitudinal, retrospective, and cross-sectional studies, neither increased consumption of dairy products, specifically, nor total dietary calcium consumption has shown even a modestly consistent benefit for child or young adult bone health.

Bonnie - Eureka! Music to our ears! Just in time to debunk the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, which increased the amount of daily dairy servings! Let's wait for the Dairy Council's response.