Low-Fat

Posted by admin on May 15th, 2007 filed in Diet Tools & Tips

Northern California researchers believe that a diet enriched with low-fat diary foods will help most people live a healthier life. Studies have shown that out of 22 to 45 volunteers that do not smoke and are roughly 60 pounds over weight, when consuming more dairy foods in every meal, results are rapid weight loss.

However, previous studies conducted elsewhere proclaimed that calcium was the main factor that caused people to lose unwanted fat. With the new research and past research, physiologist Marta D. Van Loan, believes in only focusing the on the number of servings of dairy foods being consumed every day.

Within the study some volunteers will consume only one serving of low-dairy foods in a meal or snack for three whole weeks. For the next 12 weeks the volunteers will either stay on the one serving of dairy foods a day plan or start the high diary foods plan, where they will consume three servings of dairy foods per day.

For example one serving of dairy foods will equal either two ounces of cheese, one glass of milk or one cup of yogurt. So, the main dairy foods consumed are, milk, cheese and yogurt. This study expects to have preliminary results by Spring of 2008. Research takes awhile and with obesity gradually rising in numbers, this study hopes to shed some light to the future’s epidemic.

Van Loan is based at the agency’s Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, Calif. She’s doing the work with ARS physiologist Sean H. Adams and chemist Nancy L. Keim, both of the nutrition center, and with co-investigators at the University of California-Davis, UC Davis Medical Center, and Iowa State University at Ames.

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