Got (many) milk?
a press release said an iconic mascot 1970 milk was right to recommend three glasses a day.
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Do drink plenty of milk to keep you healthy? Yes, according to a press release, 2010 by Wageningen University (WUR) in the Netherlands for a study of the relationship between milk consumption and cardiovascular disease. But on Tuesday, the university seems to withdraw the application after one of the study authors, famous epidemiologist Walter Willett of Harvard University, called "misleading" and "extreme distortion" of the results.
press release last year (the Netherlands) describes a meta-analysis of 17 studies on the effects of milk and dairy consumption on cardiovascular disease and mortality by researchers at WUR Harvard and the University of California, San Diego. The study, supported by the Dutch Dairy Association grant, was published last year by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .
The press release, entitled "Effective Milk against cardiovascular disease," city WUR scientific nutrition Sabita Soedamah-Muthu as saying the meta-analysis found that drinking three glasses of milk a day reduces the risk of disease cardiovascular 18%. The text included a play on a popular Dutch advertising campaign of the 60s and 70s with a child cartoon with superhuman strength who also recommended three glasses a day. Joris Driepinter, as the boy was known, "was right after all," he said.
Last month WUR inserted the words "seems to be" in the title and the reference to Joris Driepinter after Wakker Dier, a group of animal rights, filed a complaint with the Dutch Advertising Code Authority . The group says in a recent report that WUR, which depends on contracts for half of its research budget, often using flimsy evidence to act as an "advertising agency" for the dairy lobby. (As it happens, the industry re-enlisted Joris Driepinter earlier this year after three decades of retirement.)
Willett, who received a WUR honorary doctorate in 03, was upset as well when he read the last month statement. he said covered 'only a small subset of the data set. the much greater part of the evidence of the study do not support a benefit for cardiovascular disease. " Soedamah-Muthu said in the press release last month that it was "fundamentally independent" and that the industry had no voice in how the study was conducted. But Willett said that "when a study funded by the industry is distorted to put the industry in a positive light, the concern of the influence is appropriate."
After several weeks of negotiations, the University and US researchers published a "clarification" on Tuesday. He said the press release is based on four European studies with a limited number of cases, but the broader analysis showed that heart attacks and strokes brain, the two most important forms of cardiovascular disease, "are not significantly associated with drinking milk." He also said no nutrition recommendations can be made on the basis of the paper.
the release of original release has not been removed, but a "Note to editors" at the bottom now contains a link to the new statement. Spokesman Simon Vink University insists that the press release "was okay" and "not on the table." "The clarification has been added to show that this is part of a more complex story," he said.
Willett says he is "satisfied" clarification. "I think everyone will be very careful in the future on how the results are transmitted to the public," he said.
Joris Driepinter could not be reached for comment.
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