Oh shit looks like you got em’

Thanks! Both look like very decent studies so I am not certain where the difference comes from. I suspect that the division into age brackets, or averaging across all of the them may be the cause. Either way, it seems that the effects of being slightly overweight are barely statistically significant. The more you know

After some cursory research ([1] among other meta-analyses), this does not seem to be true below the age of 80. Could you cite a source?

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30175-1

I don’t know a single person who consumes milk because they think they require it. They just like the taste of dairy products.

The subsidization is an issue imo, but I don’t think people are as brainwashed regarding milk as you assume.