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Children who drink whole fat milk are 40% less likely to be overweight

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Why you SHOULD drink whole milk: Children who drink full fat are 40% less likely to be overweight ‘because it makes them feel fuller than semi-skimmed’ Canadian researchers reviewed more than two dozen studies on cow’s milk The results, published in a medical journal, involved data from 21,000 children None of the studies showed drinking … Read more

Mountain pony adopts three orphan lambs and even feeds them her own milk

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Mare-y had three little lambs! Mountain pony adopts three orphan lambs and even feeds them her own milk Ten-year-old horse Heidi has taken on the care of three orphaned lambs following the death of their mother The baby sheep were bought by Becky Popham and placed in a Somerset field with the Welsh mountain pony … Read more

Eating full fat milk or cheese twice a day could REDUCE your risk of heart disease, says new study

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Eating full fat milk or cheese twice a day could REDUCE your risk of heart disease, new study suggests Two helpings of full fat dairy products can lower the risk of heart disease Foods such as yogurt and milk can reduce the chances of diabetes and obesity The research was conducted by scientists at McMaster … Read more

Is breast milk the next superfood? Companies are racing to produce formula for ADULTS

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Late on Thursday night, reality TV personality Kristin Cavallari made headlines by revealing her husband, retired NFL player Jay Cutler, unclogged her ‘major clogged’ milk ducts by ‘sucking harder than he’s ever sucked.’ Her admission, screened in a promo for the new series of The Hills, triggered predictably gobsmacked responses online.  But it seems Mr … Read more

Drinking SKIMMED milk instead of semi-skimmed could slow ageing and make your DNA 4.5 YEARS younger

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Drinking skimmed milk instead of semi-skimmed milk may slow DNA ageing, a study suggests. In a study of almost 6,000 people, scientists analysed people’s genes and quizzed them about their diets and what type of milk they drank. The age of DNA could be worked out by looking at the length of certain parts of chromosomes, which … Read more

Only 1 per cent of children are ‘allergic’ to milk despite what parents claim

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Western children are being misdiagnosed with a milk allergy with just one per cent  allergic to dairy – despite 14 per cent of parents claiming their child can’t tolerate it.  Researchers from Imperial College London found that medical guidelines for diagnosing babies with cow’s milk allergies don’t consider ‘normal infant behaviour’.  Guidelines currently say symptoms … Read more