Current research study Dairy products have an anti-inflammatory effect

Overweight benefit: Dairy products have an anti-inflammatory effect
The question of whether milk is healthy or harmful has been a hot topic among experts for years. A new study confirms dairy products again positive effects on the body. They therefore have a slightly anti-inflammatory effect.

Is milk healthy or unhealthy?
After milk has long been considered a healthy food, studies have emerged in recent years that suggest that milk may benefit from conditions such as asthma or diabetes. Other studies found that milk is healthy.

According to one study, milk has an anti-inflammatory effect. Picture: kuvona - fotolia

The dispute over whether the food should be recommended or discouraged may also be fueled by a new study by an international team of scientists. The study, conducted by the Agroscope Swiss Agricultural Research Center, concludes that dairy products have a slightly anti-inflammatory effect.

Cleared up with common prejudices
As Agroscope writes in a press release, people with impaired metabolism, such as the overweight, could benefit from such foods. Milk-allergic people, on the other hand, had an effect on the development of milk products. According to their own statements, the scientists refute the common "prejudice that dairy products could promote inflammatory processes and thus non-communicable chronic illness and damage health". According to Agroscope, the influence of dairy products on the immune system and on inflammatory reactions in the human body has been explored many times in the past. So far, there has not been a critical summary of the results, "due to inconsistent studies and lack of a suitable valuation method".

Over 50 studies evaluated
Therefore, the aim of the work was to get an overview of the existing studies. For this purpose, 52 studies were re-evaluated. The researchers recently published their findings in the scientific journal Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. Since there is no method that allows to compare and evaluate results from a very different study landscape correctly, the authors decided to develop a so-called inflammatory score. This evaluation method finally showed - if you do not suffer from a milk allergy - a slight anti-inflammatory effect of dairy products. In particular, people with limited metabolism could benefit from this food group, researchers said.