specifically from dairy foods may significantly speed up fat oxidation

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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 [size=7][size=7]compared to an equivalent amount of supplemental
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