The Claim

Higher total dairy intake in the second and third quartiles is associated with reduced all-cause mortality in Japanese males and females, without a clear dose-response relationship.

Source: Association between dairy intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of 0.4 million Japanese adults from 10 population-based cohort studies.

What the research says

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Supports
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Challenges
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Correlation
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In plain English

People in Japan who consume moderate amounts of dairy products have a lower rate of death from any cause compared to those who consume less, but increasing dairy intake beyond this level does not further reduce risk.

See the scientific wording

Higher total dairy intake in the second and third quartiles is associated with reduced all-cause mortality in both Japanese males and females, though no clear dose-response relationship was observed.

Why this might work

Eating a moderate amount of dairy helps keep blood sugar, cholesterol, and inflammation levels steady, which keeps the body’s systems working properly and reduces the chance of dying from any cause.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Association between dairy intake and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of 0.4 million Japanese adults from 10 population-based cohort studies.

    In Japan, people who ate a moderate amount of dairy — not too little and not too much — were less likely to die from any cause, and eating even more dairy didn’t help any further. This is what the study found.

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