{"id":21059,"date":"2016-07-26T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:44:21","slug":"dairy-products-diabetes-l0725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/dairy-products-diabetes-l0725\/","title":{"rendered":"Dairy products may cut diabetes risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What’s your breakfast of choice? Do you enjoy eating yogurt? Or do you sit down to a big bowl of cereal in the morning?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

A new study shows diets high in dairy reduces\u00a0the risk of type 2 diabetes.\u00a0 The ingredient that researchers believe is protecting the body is a compound call trans-palmitoleic acid.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0a fatty acid found in milk, cheese, yogurt, and butter and is not produced by the body.<\/p>\n

A study done by\u00a0Harvard researchers examined 3,736 participants in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded Cardiovascular Health Study, who have been followed for 20 years in an observational study to evaluate risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in older adults.\u00a0 Patients with a high level of trans-palmitoleic acid in their body were 60% less likely to develop diabetes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of observational finding requires confirmation in additional observational studies and controlled trials, but the magnitude of this association is striking,\u201d said\u00a0Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Hardvard School of Public Health and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. \u201cThis represents an almost three-fold difference in risk of developing diabetes among individuals with the highest blood levels of this fatty acid.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Mozaffarian says past studies have found this connection between dairy foods and diabetes but this is the first time a specific acid has been connected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wonder whether this naturally occurring trans fatty acid in dairy fats may partly mimic the normal biologic role of its cis<\/em> counterpart, cis<\/em>-palmitoleic acid, a fatty acid that is produced in the body.\u00a0In animal experiments, cis<\/em>-palmitoleic acid protects against diabetes.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the study does provide good information, researchers say more studies are needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been no clear biologic explanation for the lower risk of diabetes seen with higher dairy consumption in prior studies. This is the first time that the relationship of trans<\/em>-palmitoleic acid with diabetes risk has been evaluated,\u201d said Mozaffarian.\u00a0 “It’s an interesting connection we will\u00a0have to look further into.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s your breakfast of choice? Do you enjoy eating yogurt? Or do you sit down to a big bowl of cereal in the morning?\u00a0 A new study shows diets high in dairy reduces\u00a0the risk of type 2 diabetes.\u00a0 The ingredient that researchers believe is protecting the body is a compound call trans-palmitoleic acid.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0a fatty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t