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Can meat/dairy help fight cancer?
Study in
@Nature
found that a fatty acid in dairy, beef, lamb (TVA, or transvaccenic acid) could "enhance anti-tumor activity" by stimulating a stronger immune response. Feeding mice TVA reduced potential tumor growth of melanoma and colon cancer cells.

https://tinyurl.com/2xdpkyvu

This contradicts the WHO, which says meat is a possible/probable cause of colon cancer, but that report was based on exceptionally weak data and never had plausible mechanisms to explain.

Advances in Nutrition
Volume 14, Issue 5, September 2023, Pages 1170-1186
Advances in Nutrition

Cheese consumption and multiple health outcomes: an umbrella review and updated meta-analysis of prospective studies

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advnut.2023.06.007

Abstract
This umbrella review aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of current evidence from prospective studies on the diverse health effects of cheese consumption. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library to identify meta-analyses/pooled analyses of prospective studies examining the association between cheese consumption and major health outcomes from inception to August 31, 2022. We reanalyzed and updated previous meta-analyses and performed de novo meta-analyses with recently published prospective studies, where appropriate. We calculated the summary effect size, 95% prediction confidence intervals, between-study heterogeneity, small-study effects, and excess significance bias for each health outcome. We identified 54 eligible articles of meta-analyses/pooled analyses. After adding newly published original articles, we performed 35 updated meta-analyses and 4 de novo meta-analyses. Together with 8 previous meta-analyses, we finally included 47 unique health outcomes. Cheese consumption was inversely associated with all-cause mortality (highest compared with lowest category: RR = 0.95; 95% CI: 0.92, 0.99), cardiovascular mortality (RR = 0.93; 95% CI: 0.88, 0.99), incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) (RR = 0.92; 95% CI: 0.89, 0.96), coronary heart disease (CHD) (RR = 0.92; 95% CI: 0.86, 0.98), stroke (RR = 0.93; 95% CI: 0.89, 0.98), estrogen receptor-negative (ER−) breast cancer (RR = 0.89; 95% CI: 0.82, 0.97), type 2 diabetes (RR = 0.93; 95% CI: 0.88, 0.98), total fracture (RR = 0.90; 95% CI: 0.86, 0.95), and dementia (RR = 0.81; 95% CI: 0.66, 0.99). Null associations were found for other outcomes. According to the NutriGrade scoring system, moderate quality of evidence was observed for inverse associations of cheese consumption with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, incident CVD, CHD, and stroke, and for null associations with cancer mortality, incident hypertension, and prostate cancer. Our findings suggest that cheese consumption has neutral to moderate benefits for human health.

Since the NYTimes has long been v. close to the government on diet advice, my take on this story is that it's previewing the likely outcome of the current 'expert' review on sat fats, for the next US Dietary Guidelines.

That review will likely carve out fats in dairy as being OK while condemning those in meat.

...even though this is not grounded in any kind of strong science. The large clinical trials on saturated fats combined all types of saturated fat together and the results--> no effect on cardiovascular or total mortality.

However, this dairy vs. meat approach has been pursued for a while, esp. by the dairy industry, to cleave off from much-demonized meat.

Managing pre-diabetes: Full fat Yogurt has surprising benefits over low fat milk

Full-fat yogurt is considered more beneficial than low-fat milk. Know the reason!

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Studies indicate that consuming full-fat dairy products can reduce the risk of pre-diabetes. Probiotic composition and fat is the primary content of a full-fat yogurt and it has a protective effect against elevated blood sugar levels and insulin resistance.

Both these factors are majorly responsible for developing pre-diabetes. It has been established by various studies that the composition and the quality of food that you consume have a direct effect on your risk of developing prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Full-fat yogurt with its multiple amounts of beneficial nutrients has the right combination to fight symptoms of prediabetes.

When compared with low-fat milk, studies have shown that it can potentially lead to the prediabetes stage as it has a low amount of nutrients. With these findings now the health conscious people are turning towards full-fat yogurt and full-fat milk although it should be consumed in moderation.