A study by researchers at the Uppsala University in Sweden found that drinking milk led to an increased mortality rate and actually made bones more prone to fracturing, the British Medical Journal published.
The study showed that milk intake increased mortality rate in both men and women, with women facing a higher incidence of fracture.
Milk has been scrutinized over the past years, and more and more studies are revealing how the drink is causing problems to the body rather than providing better health.
This particular study is not the only study that has suggested how milk is not good for the body. In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, Harvard pediatrician David Ludwig emphasizes that bone fracture rates tend to be lower in countries that do not consume milk compared to those that do, also noting that there are many other sources of calcium, as reported by Huffington Post.
The different studies actually show how calcium itself is not as protective of the bone as it was believed. It was seen that calcium does not reduce bone fracture risk as much as Vitamin D does.
"Given the observational study designs with the inherent possibility of residual confounding and reverse causation phenomena, a cautious interpretation of the results is recommended," Collective Evolution reports.
Scientists are encouraging people to resort to other sources of calcium outside milk, as there are plenty to choose from. Beans, peas and even oranges are but some of the food products that contain calcium.
