Sorry, Cheese Is Still Not Great For Your Heart

The internet went wild this week over a new study that suggests eating dairy products like cheese might be healthier than we thought. Headlines like “Eating cheese does not raise risk of heart attack or stroke, study finds” were published multiple times. But those reactions are oversimplified and the actual research should be taken with a heavy dose of skepticism, according to experts. “I rolled my eyes at this study,” Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist at Stanford University, told HuffPost. Not only is the report funded by organizations associated with the dairy industry, the study simply didn’t reach the conclusion media reports say it did, Gardner said. The study wasn’t designed to make diet recommendations In a meta-analysis, researchers examined 29 old studies, which contained nearly 1 million participants total among them, to understand how consuming dairy can affect human health. Then the researchers looked over the combined data to draw conclusions. “We need to take this meta-analysis with a grain of salt,” James J. DiNicolantonio, a cardiovascular research scientist and author of the upcoming book The Salt Fix, told HuffPost. “[The study] is based on observational studies not randomized controlled trials so it cannot prove causation.” In other words, there’s no definitive way to say that eating cheese did or did not cause cardiovascular health issues...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news