Milk with a dangerous covert. Milk consumption may be fatal. Swedish researchers Prof.karl michaelsson and team analyze the association of milk consumption and mortality. In the study, a group of 61,433 women, aged 39-74 and a group of 45,339 men, aged 45-79 answer to a questionnaire in 1987-1990 to average consumption of up to 96 common food and beverages, including milk, fermented milk, yogurt and cheese found that women who drank more than three glasses of milk a day had a higher risk of death than women who drank less than one glass of milk a day. Although less pronounced than in the female group, men also had a higher risk of death with higher milk consumption.