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Milk Fat Intake and Telomere Length in US Adults: The Role of Milk Fat Fraction (hindawi.com)
25 points by bookofjoe on Jan 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



interesting:

“” For each 1 percentage point increase in milk fat consumed (e.g., 1% to 2%), adults had more than 4 years of additional biological aging. ””


What I found more interesting was that "...there is no relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length among adults who consumed low levels of total saturated fat (tertile 1), but it is strong among adults who consumed moderate or high levels of total saturated fat."


So if I drink whole milk, and whole milk is 3.5% milkfat, then I guess I've been drinking myself out of 14 years of life?

...but those 14 years would be spent drinking the dishwater we know as skim milk. So I think it's a fair trade. :)

On my deathbed will I curse buttercup the cow.


Indeed. I'd rather not drink milk at all than drink skimmed milk.




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