Milk has long been promoted as bone-strengthening. But a new study suggests that milk doesn’t appear to protect against bone fracture and may actually lead to increased mortality.
In the new study, published in BMJ, researchers studied dairy consumption on more than 100,000 people in Sweden. They found that high milk intake was associated with higher mortality in both men and women. They also showed that bone fractures were higher in women.
Though the new study was observational and not designed to show that milk is a cause of increased mortality, yet it questions the validity of conventional wisdom.
The authors of the study suggest that lactose and galactose in milk may cause inflammation in bones that resembles aging, leading to factures. Supplementing with galactose in animals showed increased aging processes like inflammation and oxidative stress.
The study data also shows a correlation between reduced fractures and low-lactose milk consumption.
Now that there are very good alternatives to milk, has the time come to remove it from your diet?
There is no safety in the eating of the flesh of dead animals, and in a short time the milk of the cows will also be excluded from the diet of God’s commandment-keeping people. In a short time it will not be safe to use anything that comes from the animal creation. Those who take God at His word, and obey His commandments with the whole heart, will be blessed. He will be their shield of protection. But the Lord will not be trifled with. Distrust, disobedience, alienation from God’s will and way, will place the sinner in a position where the Lord cannot give him His divine favor. . . . Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 411.
Nature knows best!