My Diet - Milk

The National Dairy Council wrote in its 2005 website article "Dairy and Weight Management: A Look at the Science":

"Dairy foods may also play a role in improving body weight and/or composition, according to a growing body of scientific research...

Studies suggest that for people who do not consume recommended amounts of dairy products, they can enhance their weight loss efforts by including 3 servings of dairy products each day in a reduced-calorie weight loss plan. In several controlled clinical trials of overweight and obese adults following reduced-calorie diets, increasing dairy intake to 3 servings a day of milk, yogurt, or cheese resulted in greater weight loss compared to adults who only cut calories...

The current body of research includes randomized clinical trials (considered the 'gold standard' of science), observational, animal and cellular studies conducted by leading research institutions throughout the country. This intriguing connection is being studied worldwide - with positive results reported in Denmark, Greece, Italy and other countries."

2005 - National Dairy Council 

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The Dairy Council of California explained in its 2004 pamphlet "Calcium and Dairy Products: New Weapons in the War on Obesity":

"Mounting research indicates that consuming more calcium in the diet - particularly from calcium-rich dairy foods - can speed up weight loss and reduce body fat, particularly abdominal fat. Consuming dairy products appears to help prevent body weight and fat gain in children and adults, Caucasians and African-Americans, males and females. In addition, dairy foods have proven to be more effective than calcium alone in moderating body weight/fat gain and accelerating weight/fat loss...

The mix of essential nutrients in dairy foods, including calcium and protein, appears to speed up metabolism and improve the body's ability to burn fat, especially abdominal fat."

2004 - Dairy Council of California 

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Michael Zemel, PhD, Director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee, et al., reported in their Apr. 2004 Obesity Research article "Calcium and Dairy Acceleration of Weight and Fat Loss During Energy Restriction in Obese Adults":

"All participants lost body weight and body fat due to the daily energy deficit of 500kcal/d [Calories per day]. However, both weight and fat loss were markedly increased on the high-dairy diet, with intermediate, but still significant effects on the high-[non-dairy] calcium diet...

Participants on the low-calcium control diet lost 6.4 +/- 2.5% of their body weight [an average loss of 6.60 +/- 2.58 kg]. This was increased by 26% [an average loss of 8.58 +/- 1.60 kg] on the high-calcium diet and by 70% [an average loss of 11.07 +/- 1.63 kg] on the high-dairy diet.

Fat loss followed a similar trend. Patients lost 8.1 +/- 2.3% of their body fat [an average loss of 4.81 +/- 1.22 kg] on the low-calcium control diet. This was increased to 11.6 +/- 2.2% [an average loss of 5.61 +/- 0.98 kg] on the high-calcium diet and to 14.1 +/- 2.4% fat loss [an average loss of 7.16 +/- 1.22 kg] on the high-dairy diet."

Apr. 2004 - Michael Zemel, PhD 

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Dorothy Teegarden, PhD, Professor of Food and Nutrition at Purdue University, wrote in her Dec. 2005 paper "The Influence of Dairy Product Consumption on Body Composition," published Dec. 2005 in the Journal of Nutrition:

"Substantial evidence exists for an association between dietary calcium or dairy product intakes and lower body fat or waist circumference...

The results of randomized clinical weight loss trials demonstrate predominantly that dairy products enhance weight and fat mass loss, but the results for dietary calcium are contradictory. The number of conflicting results suggests that if there is an effect, multiple factors, such as total energy intake, protein amount and source, and/or vitamin D status, may act synergistically to regulate energy balance to promote reduction or prevent gain of body fat."

Dec. 2005 - Dorothy Teegarden, PhD 

Zooropa

U2

U2

(What do you want? What do you want?)
(Watch your spell)
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Be a winner
Eat to get slimmer
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We're mild and green
And squeaky clean
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Through appliance of science
We've got that ring of confidence....
And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I havve no reasons
No reasons to get back
And I have no religion
And I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit
The limit of what we got
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Get your head out of mud baby
Put flowers in the mud baby
Overground
No particular place names
No particular song
I've been hiding
What am I hiding from?
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(She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud)