Study: High-fat dairy consumers less likely to develop diabetes

You may want to sit down for this one, skim milk drinkers.

A new study suggests suggests people who consume full-fat dairy weigh less and are less likely to develop diabetes than those who eat low-fat dairy products.

In the study, published in the journal Circulation, researchers analyzed the blood of 3,333 adults for about 15 years. They found people with higher levels of three different byproducts of full-fat dairy had, on average, a 46 percent lower risk of getting diabetes than those with lower levels.

“There is no prospective human evidence that people who eat low-fat dairy do better than people who eat whole-fat dairy,” Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, one of the researchers, said.

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