health effects of dairy
One big strike against fresh milk specifically is that Most of the world is lactose intolerant
Dairy is probably not good for weight loss in HICs Schwingshackl et al., 2016, However this meta analysis[1] reviewed 17 studies and found that dairy consumption seems to decrease risk of obesity with quite strong effect
Neuenschwander et al., 2023 found swapping butter for olive oil reduced CVD, and replacing dairy for nuts reduced all cause morality
Schwingshackl et al., 2017a found that above 600g per day dairy was associated with all cause mortality (27 studies, 126000 death cases). But that's a lot of dairy. A yoghurt weighs 100g, a block of violife 200g
References
Wang, W., Wu, Y., & Zhang, D. (2016). Association of dairy products consumption with risk of obesity in children and adults: a meta-analysis of mainly cross-sectional studies. Annals of epidemiology, 26(12), 870-882. ↩︎