Uncle Sam says: drink more milk (and eat more dairy foods)
On balance, the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans treat dairy foods favorably. Adults get their dairy from milk and yogurt, but they are not meeting the recommended three-a-day servings.
Eating more fat-free or low-fat forms of dairy would benefit most Americans, according to the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released today by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
Those dairy forms are milk (including lactose-free milk), yogurt, and cheese or from fortified soy beverages (soymilk). According to the report, “some sweetened milk and yogurt products may be included in a healthy eating pattern as long as the total amount of added sugars consumed does not exceed the limit for added sugars, and the eating pattern does not exceed calorie limits.”