WIKIMEDIA, BENSON KUA
In 2010, a press release from Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) in The Netherlands trumpeted a claim by one of its faculty members that people who drank 3 glasses of milk per day reduced their risk of cardiovascular disease by 18 percent. The trouble was, the study that the press release was announcing didn't exactly find that to be true. And now one of the US scientists who coauthored the study, a Dutch Dairy Association-funded meta-analysis of 17 previously-published papers, has called the release misleading and distorted, prompting WUR to withdraw the claim and issue a clarification.
The meta-analysis was published in the January 2011 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and makes much more tempered statements about the relationship between milk ...
