What Happens To Your Cholesterol When You Drink Milk Every Day – Health Digest

In a 2018 study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, people drank about 16 ounces of either skim or whole milk each day for three weeks. Later, they swapped for the other type of milk for another three weeks. When the people drank whole milk, their HDL “good” cholesterol levels increased. Both skim and whole milk didn’t increase total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. In other words, drinking milk every day can be healthy if you’re trying to watch your cholesterol.

Efforts to address childhood obesity have included removing heavily processed foods from children’s diets. A 2022 article in PLoS One had a group of children eat minimally processed foods such as green vegetables, beef, and whole dairy butter on their bread. They were also required to drink about 10 ounces of whole milk every day. The other group of children ate their normal diet. Several months later, the children who swapped minimally processed foods in their diet saw their HDL cholesterol improve, and their total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol ratio also significantly decreased to improve their heart health.