Studies have found an increase in faecal fat with the intake of milk, which has partly been ascribed to the lipid-binding effect of calcium (Christensen et al., 2009). Previous studies have shown that ANGPTL4 can inhibit the pancreatic lipase responsible for the hydrolysis of triglycerides and FFA availability for up-take (Mattijssen et al., 2013). ANGPTL4/ mice showed a decreased lipid content in their stool (Mattijssen et al., 2013) confirming the hypothesis of a very active pancreatic lipase and lipid uptake. We found that milk was able to increase ANGPTL4 gene expression in an intestinal cell line and suggest that this pathway is partly responsible for the decreased hydrolysis of milk fat and increased faecal fat content, observed in human studies upon milk consumption (Christensen et al., 2009). Further studies using in vivo experiments should be conducted to elucidate the effect further.