Today, the dairy industry supports a 3-A-Day campaign to encourage consumers to eat daily three servings of any combination of milk, cheese or yogurt. This recommendation is not just based on the dairy industry's desire to sell more products, but rather on science so strong that the expert nutritionists panel that drafted the latest national dietary guidelines also recommends the same.

Milk fat used to be criticized because it was high in saturated fat. Today, the story has changed to where we see chemically hydrogenated fats linked to heart disease, with some saturated fats, such as stearic acid, considered to be neutral, or perhaps even beneficial.