The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health?

The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health?

The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health?
On the occasion of its first Major Inquiry, PasseportSanté has been tackling a controversial subject for many years. Health food par excellence for some, insidious poison for others: milk never ceases to fuel the debates. To try to see more clearly, we interviewed 4 health professionals with radically opposed opinions.

Since the recent publication of a study showing the link between heavy milk consumption and increased premature mortality1, the milk controversy has found a new lease of life. Until then, scientific research had mainly demonstrated its nutritional richness and its health benefits. Two discourses therefore clash today in a sensitive climate, one accusing the other of disinformation. So how can we see it more clearly? Does milk have all the virtues that we attribute to it?

 

Its defenders

The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health? Jean-Michel Lecerf

Head of the Nutrition Department at the Institut Pasteur de Lille

“Milk is not a bad food!”

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The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health?Marie-Claude Bertiere

Director of the CNIEL department and nutritionist

“Going without dairy products leads to deficits beyond calcium”

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His detractors

The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health?Marion Kaplan

Bio-nutritionist specialized in energy medicine

“No milk after 3 years”

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The Great Inquiry: Is Milk Good or Bad for Health? Herve Berbille

Engineer in agrifood and graduate in ethno-pharmacology.

“Few benefits and a lot of risks!”

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Namely

  • Milk is increasingly shunned by consumers (consumption has fallen by 13% in volume since 2000).
  • A new study published by the British Medical Journal showed that the risk of premature death was almost doubled in women who drank 3 large glasses of milk per day compared to those who did not.

 

source

1. Michaëlsson K et coll. : Milk intake and risk of mortality and fractures in women and men: cohort studies. BMJ 2014; 349: g6015

 

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