Milk: White elixir or white poison? An examination of the associations between dairy consumption and disease in human subjects

Abstract

• Overall, milk consumption provides health benefits to all age groups. • Effects of cheese, butter, and fat-reduced and saturated fat-reduced milk and dairy products are less clear and require more research. • Public health nutrition policy related to milk consumption should be based on the evidence presented and not solely on the believed negative effects of dietary fat. • Milk is not a white elixir since no study has reported eternal youth from drinking it, but there is certainly no evidence that milk is a white poison!