Harvard and Tufts University academics just published a surprising study in Circulation (American Heart Association journal) that contradicts everything you’ve ever learned about fats.
It turns out that some fats are not simply not bad for you. Those who ate the most of a specific fat were 46% less likely to suffer type 2 diabetes.
And it’s exactly the fat you’ve been told to avoid at all cost.
The study concluded that people who consumed full cream dairy were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who consumed skim products.
Instead of counting on participants to record their own intake of dairy products correctly, as most studies do, these researchers decided to be more rigorous by testing the level of dairy fat in people’s blood.
This served as a measurement of the amount of dairy fat they consumed.
Luckily for them, this information was already available, collected by the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study in the 1980s and 1990s.
They then asked those same people to answer questions about their health, diagnostic tests, and medication in 2010 to assess whether there was a difference in the health outcomes of the high-fat and low-fat dairy consumers.
Surprisingly (or not) the high-fat dairy consumers had a 46 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than the low-fat users.