Dr. Adam Lock, assistant professor of animal science at Michigan State University, presented at the 2010 Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference. His speech was titled, “Separating Fats from Fiction: Unraveling the Truth Behind the Effects of Milk and MIlk Fat on Human Health.” Read my favorite quotes from Dr. Lock below.

“The concept of eating healthy has become synonymous with avoiding dietary fat, especially saturated fat and trans fat.”

“No one has ever died of high cholesterol, it’s heart disease. That fact that saturated fat increases cholesterol is too simple. It raises the good and bad equally. Saturated fat is only one of 270 factors that influence heart disease.”

“All milk should be promoted as a healthy part of the diet. Milk is a functional food. Many bioactive factors in milk have beneficial effects on human health.”

“We need to educate nutritionists, dieticians and the general public on the essential importance of fat in the diet.”