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Full-fat milk is found to cut the risk of diabetes mellitus down into half than its low-fat counterparts. People that consume skimmed milk to cut down on calories might have to reconsider using whole-fat milk in the diet.

Dairy fat has long been considered as one of the main contributors to obesity and there has been a drastic shift from whole-fat milk to skimmed ones among diet-conscious people recent years. But researchers have now come up with a breakthrough discovery that full-fat milk reduces the risk of diabetes mellitus up to 46 percent than skimmed milk, according to Fox News.

Researchers from Tulane University studied data from 3,333 adults, aged between 30 and 75, that took part in Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study for around 15 years. In the study focused on circulating biomarkers, it was found that individuals with high levels of dairy fat in blood were at 46 percent lower risk of developing diabetes mellitus than those that had low levels of dairy fat in the blood.

"I think these findings together with those from other studies do call for a change in the policy of recommending only low-fat dairy products," study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian told Time. "There is no prospective human evidence that people who eat low-fat dairy do better than people who eat whole-fat dairy."

Diabetes and obesity are serious health threats recent years and people who are conscious about the issue give on high fat and carbohydrates in the diet. Dairy fat happens to be the important one among foods people tend to quit more often. The recent findings published in the journal Circulation shed light on health benefits of dairy products.

"In the absence of any evidence for the superior effects of low-fat dairy, and some evidence that there may be better benefits of whole fat dairy products for diabetes, why are we recommending only low-fat diary? We should be telling people to eat a variety of dairy and remove the recommendation about fat content," added Mozaffarian.

While there is no evidence on health risks of whole-fat milk, there are a couple of studies that showcase the benefits of dairy fat. In a study conducted by Swedish researchers, it was observed that middle-aged men that consumed high-fat dairy for over 12 years were less likely to become obese than men that consumed few or no dairy products.