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 Increasing dietary calcium specifically from dairy
foods may significantly speed up fat oxidation (burning),
according to a new study from researchers at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
Previous research has shown
calcium itself may stimulate weight loss, but this is believed
to be the first study showing that dairy products exert a
substantially greater effect on fat loss compared to an equivalent
amount of supplemental calcium.
In the study, 32 adult
subjects were randomized to a control diet (1 serving of 400 to 500 milligrams
of calcium per day supplemented with a placebo); high calcium (control diet
supplemented with 800 milligrams of calcium per day); or
high-dairy (three to four servings of low-fat dairy products per
day, which
equated to 1,200 to 1,300 milligrams of calcium per day.
“Fat loss with the
high-calcium and high-dairy diets
augmented fat loss by 38 percent and 64
percent, respectively, over the
low-calcium diet,” report the researchers.
What’s more, fat loss from the
abdominal region (belly fat) represented 19
percent of total fat loss on the
low-calcium diet, and this fraction
was increased to 50.1 percent and
66.2 percent on the high-calcium
and high-dairy diets,” they write.
“Thus, increasing dietary calcium
significantly augments weight and fat
loss secondary to caloric restriction
and increases the percentage of fat
loss from the trunk region. Moreover, dairy products exert a
substantially greater effect on both fat loss and fat
distribution compared to an equivalent amount of supplemental
calcium.”
Study: Energize
Your Body and Life with Clean
Eating
 Healthy eating habits are not
only good for the body
but may
shape up a person’s quality of life, as well, suggests a new study published in
the August
edition of the Annals
of Behavioral Medicine.
According to the report,
individuals who
exercised dietary restraint for four years were much more self-assured,
confident and
satisfied with life in general, compared with their carefree-eating peers.
The study followed 194
people who
switched to a healthy, nutrient-dense diet and 200 people who continued eating
like regular people
do.
The
healthy eaters were
instructed to
consume a moderate protein- and complex-carbohydrate-containing
diet with no more
than 20
percent of their calories from fat. They were also asked to
eat 18
grams of fiber for every 1,000 calories consumed and to
eat five
to eight servings of fruit and vegetables daily.
“This study provides
evidence that,
given appropriate support, free-living individuals can successfully
alter their eating
patterns in
multiple ways without a negative impact on quality of
life,” says Dr. Donald
Corle of the National Cancer Institute in
Bethesda, Maryland, and
the study’s lead author.
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| Study: Protein Increases Fat
Loss |
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Everyone who works out
understands, or should
understand, the importance of
a diet high in protein
for building
muscle.
What isn’t so obvious,
however, is the
importance of a high-protein diet for
burning fat,
particularly that of the abdominal
variety.
You
see, one of the most
effective dietary weapons in
our fat-fighting arsenal is
something called the
“thermic” response to
food.
What that means is when we
eat, our
bodies burn calories to digest the food. And
more calories
burned can mean more fat
lost.
Recently
researchers from Arizona
State University investigated
the thermic response of a
standard high-carbohydrate
diet (60 percent carbs, 15
percent protein and 25
percent fat) and a higher-protein diet (40
percent protein,
30 percent carbs and 30 percent
fat).
The
thermic effect was
found to be significantly greater
— to
the tune of an extra 58 extra calories
burned after each meal — aong those
on the higher-protein
diet.
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Loss |
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Many Americans who are trying
to lose fat routinely skip
breakfast as a means of
reducing calorie intake.
Bad idea,
say researchers from the
University of Colorado Health
Sciences
Center.
Recently, Dr. Holly Wyatt and
colleagues evaluated
weight history and breakfast consumption of
2,959 men and
women who had lost and maintained an average
of 32.4
pounds for six years.
“Over 80 percent of
participants report eating breakfast every
or nearly every day,” report the
researchers.
“Less than 4 percent are maintaining their
weight losses without eating
breakfast."
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