Researchers say health benefits of milk consumption outweigh dangers.

Just to confuse us once more about nutrition, "drinking milk can lessen the chances of dying from illnesses such as heart disease and stroke by as much as 20 percent." While "cow's milk provides calcium, potassium, protein, and vitamin D," it also contains "sugars and saturated fat," so it "is often portrayed as an unhealthy choice." For their paper, researchers at the UK's Cardiff University and University of Reading conducted an analysis of "324 studies of milk consumption as predictors of coronary heart disease, stroke and diabetes." They found that the "health benefits associated with the drink outweigh dangers."