Reaching for that extra scoop of ice cream may not be so harmful to your health after all – at least your heart health. A new study out this month suggests that dairy consumption does not elevate heart-attack risk despite its saturated fat content.
Researchers from the Department of Community Heath at Brown University in Providence, R.I., conducted an analysis that showed the dairy intake by people who had heart attacks was not statistically different from those who did not.
“The overall message of dairy consumption, at least in the levels we studied, is that it is not likely to increase your risk of heart attack, said Stella Aslibekyan, co-author of the study and graduate student at Brown when the study was done. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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