Dairy, Science, Society, and the Environment Reference library
Christopher Lu
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...weight control and body fat, and cancer. They concluded the following: (a) an adequate intake of calcium and other nutrients from dairy foods reduces the risk of osteoporosis by increasing bone acquisition during growth, slowing age-related bone loss, and reducing osteoporotic fractures; (b) a number of animal, observational, and clinical studies have shown that dairy food consumption can help reduce the risk of hypertension, and emerging data indicate that specific peptides associated with casein and whey proteins can significantly lower blood pressure; (c)...
