A glass of milk may have fetched you a lot of scolding during your childhood. It may have also prompted you to engage yourself in mischievous activities like secretly feeding it to your pet pussy cat or throwing it out of a window. A glass of milk may have made you squeeze your nose in a typical fashion so as to show your utter dislike. Your mother used to become your worst enemy at that time. But you would have not realized that a glass of milk everyday could go a long way to protect you from diabetes type 2.
Researchers at the Harvard University have claimed that drinking milk during the teenage can lower a woman's risk of contracting diabetes type 2. Teenagers who drink milk are most likely to carry on the same habit when they become adults. And this life-long habit has been found to be associated with a 43 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes in comparison to those who do not drink milk.
The researchers examined the teenage and adult food consumption patterns and health risk in more than 37,000 women. The results indicated that women who consumed the most milk as adults and dairy products as teenagers were found to be at a lower risk of suffering from diabetes type 2. Teens who drank milk and milk products (about 4 servings daily, were also found to gain less weight as the years passed by.
In another study, Harvard University researchers intended to establish the lifelong benefits of milk consumption by highlighting it as a source of protein. They studied more than 440,000 adults and found that the said risk becomes 17 percent when low fat dairy is replaced with milk. This finding again reinforces the reason why you should pay more respect to a daily glass of milk.
