| JANUARY 28, 2012 -- Another week, another study documenting the health advantages of milk.
This time, it’s a study from New Zealand discussing the possibility that enriched skim milk may be able to reduce gout flare-ups.
"This is the first reported controlled trial of dietary intervention in patients with gout, and suggests that (enriched skim milk powder) may reduce the frequency of gout flares,” the authors write in an article published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The authors are from the University of Auckland and the Fonterra Research Center. (In the interest of full disclosure, Fonterra is the largest dairy cooperative in New Zealand.)
To read “Enriched milk may ease gout” from WebMD, click here.
A few days ago, researchers from the University of California-Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture wrote in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism that a high-calcium diet containing nonfat dry milk reduced weight gain in obese mice. Further investigation is needed to find exactly which of the compounds in milk create this effect. Read more.
Also, see “More evidence that dairy can cut diabetes risk.” |
