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Guest contributors to Dairy Nutrition share their professional expertise on a variety of topics related to milk products, nutrition and health.

Milk Products Play a Key Role in Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

A growing and largely consistent body of evidence, including data from several meta-analyses, demonstrates that milk products significantly lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Keywords: glycemic index, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome

The alkaline diet, the acid-ash hypothesis and bone health

Numerous webpages, books for lay persons, and alternative health practitioners espouse that diets favouring protein foods (especially meat and dairy products) and grains produce excess acid, such as phosphate, that must be buffered. They claim that this buffering mobilizes bone mineral...
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Saturated Fat and Cardiovascular Diseases: The Role of Milk Products in Reducing Risk

Current dietary recommendations advocate reducing saturated fatty acid intake to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that milk products, including cheese, may reduce cardiovascular disease risk despite their saturated fatty acid...
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Institute of Medicine's New DRIs for Calcium and Vitamin D

Following a comprehensive review of the scientific literature, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued new recommendations for intakes of calcium and vitamin D based on their key role in skeletal health, consistent with a cause-and-effect relationship. Highlights:Scientific evidence...
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Sodium Reduction in the Canadian Food Supply: Challenges for Cheese

In July 2010, the Sodium Working Group of Health Canada released their recommendations for reducing sodium intakes of Canadians to 2,300 mg/day by 2016. Although sodium consumption in Canada is too high, its reduction in foods such as cheese is challenging. HighlightsSalt is responsible...
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New evidence reveals that saturated fat does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease

In light of new scientific data, it appears that saturated fat is not associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Adequate milk product consumption may help prevent type 2 Diabetes

A healthy diet and lifestyle play an important role in the prevention of chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes. Emerging evidence suggests that ensuring adequate consumption of milk products may significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. While the exact mechanisms...
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Building Healthier Diets: The Nutrient-Rich Foods Index

In the fight against obesity, we need to be counseling the public on the need to spend less time counting calories and more time making sure that every calorie counts. The goal of nutrient profiling is to provide “nutrition at a glance.” Not only are current nutrition facts panels...
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Milk Products and the Prevention of Colon Cancer

Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in males and females and the second leading cause of mortality in the Western World. It has been estimated that in Canada in 2009, a total of 22,000 individuals will develop colon cancer (12,100 males/9,900 females). The incidence rate of this...
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Protein and Bone Health

While calcium and vitamin D are well recognized for their role in the prevention of osteoporosis, the impact of dietary protein on bone health is less well understood. A well-accepted hypothesis holds that high-protein diets are possibly/potentially detrimental to bone because they...
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Chocolate Milk and Post Exercise Recovery

Although there is no scientific basis for the commonly held belief that adults require eight to 10 glasses of water daily, liquids do need to be consumed before, during and after physical activity to support adequate hydration and replace fluid and electrolytes lost through perspiration....
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Calcium Supplements and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

There is evidence from meta-analyses that calcium supplements are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, dietary calcium has not been shown to impair cardiovascular...
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Milk: An Essential Source of Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 deficiency affects a large proportion of older adults, and its prevalence increases with age. Furthermore, recommended intakes may not be adequate to reach and maintain optimal vitamin...
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Milk Products and Breast Cancer

Current evidence from the literature indicates that the consumption of milk products is not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
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Milk Products Play a Key Role in Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

A growing and largely consistent body of evidence, including data from several meta-analyses, demonstrates that milk products significantly lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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The Maritime Dairy Industry Award

If you are from the Maritimes and you are studying in a field that applies to the dairy industry, you are eligible to apply for the Maritime Dairy Industry Award, which consists of two $2,000 scholarships.
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