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Milk & dairy

milk · cheese · butter
−2 min per daily serving, over a lifetime
measured · moderate evidence

What it does

Bergen models a small gain from cutting 300 g/day to 200 g. The effect is the smallest of any group with data, and the evidence is only moderate. Fermented dairy sits separately under yogurt.

+0.1 years
from cutting 300 g/day to 200 g · the smallest effect in the model

Where the number comes from

Milk & dairy sits in the dairy group of the Fadnes model, the only peer-reviewed model that converts eating into years of life. The lifetime gain for that group is spread across the days you actually eat it — a daily serving from age 20 to 80 — which gives −2 min per serving. The authors rate the evidence behind this group as moderate.

How to eat it

Not the villain it is made out to be. Not a health food either.

Source: Fadnes et al. · PLOS Medicine, 2022 (meta-analysis).

Minutes derived from Fadnes LT, Økland J-M, Haaland ØA, Johansson KA. Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study. PLOS Medicine 19(2):e1003889, 2022. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889

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দুধ ও দুগ্ধজাত

বার্গেন মডেলে দিনে ৩০০ থেকে ২০০ গ্রামে নামালে সামান্য লাভ। তথ্য-সহ যেকোনো গ্রুপের মধ্যে এটাই সবচেয়ে ছোট প্রভাব। ফারমেন্টেড দুগ্ধজাত আলাদা — টক দই দেখুন।

যতটা খারাপ বলা হয় ততটা নয়। আবার স্বাস্থ্যকরও নয়।

প্রতিদিন এক সার্ভিং = −2 মিনিট।

120 is the biological ceiling, not a promise. These are population estimates from a peer-reviewed model, not a personal forecast. Educational information, not medical advice.