By Dr. Frederick Peters
August 11th, 2026
Dr. Fred’s The Fitness Doctor’s Blog blast had loads of interesting and illuminating info as usual, and I think many of you would enjoy reading it as well, so I am sharing it here. For those of us trying to lose weight – definitely a few surprises in what he writes about, and results. Have a read. I encourage you to sign up it too.
Is Full-Fat Dairy Really Bad for You? New Research Challenges Decades of Nutrition Advice
| For decades, the nutritional advice surrounding dairy has been remarkably consistent: if you’re going to consume milk, yogurt, cheese, or other dairy products, choose the low-fat or fat-free version. The rationale seems straightforward… Full-fat dairy contains more saturated fat. Saturated fat can increase LDL cholesterol. Elevated LDL-containing lipoproteins play a causal role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Therefore, reducing the saturated fat in dairy should reduce should reduce cardiovascular risk. But there may be a problem with that logic. It assumes that we can predict the health effects of an entire food simply by looking at one nutrient it contains. Increasingly, nutrition research suggests we cannot. A new randomized controlled trial published in The Journal of Nutrition adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that full-fat dairy may not produce the adverse metabolic effects we might predict simply by looking at its saturated-fat content. The findings are interesting. They do not prove that full-fat dairy is healthier than low-fat dairy. They certainly don’t mean saturated fat no longer matters. And there is another important detail: the research received funding that included support from Dairy Farmers of Canada. So, what did the study actually find—and should it change the way we think about dairy? |
