Too Much Milk Linked To Higher Osteoporotic Fractures

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

A diet rich in milk products is promoted as strengthening bones and reducing the likelihood of osteoporotic fractures, but dairy lobby marketing aside, actual research related to the benefits of milk for the prevention of fractures or influence on mortality rates has found evidence for and against.    A new study finds that high milk intake in women and men is not accompanied by a lower risk of fracture and instead may be associated with a higher rate of death.  read more

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