Milk and weight loss

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Milk and weight loss
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 12:32pm
I'm sure we've all heard;"Milk...it does the body good",but I've seen LOTS of places that now say adding some milk into your daily life may also help in shedding those unwanted pounds.

Well since I don't drink any milk(nasty stuff imo..unless it's chocolate and then whats the point),I was wondering how many of you DO drink milk daily and how do you feel about whats being said about milk and weightloss.Does it work? Do you think it's a bunch of hooey?

Just curious what people thought ;o)

Bren

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:04pm
Well I dont try to get in milk each day but I do like milk...typically best with cookies lol I would like to get back into eating Kashi and milk each morning but my Heart to Heart cereal just keeps sitting there. About whether it helps you lose weight, I heard on some TV show the other night that counting calories is the diet of the past...low carb is the hot diet for right now but in the future...we will be fussing over getting in more dairy. This woman said that dairy will be more important in the future diets instead of counting calories or counting carbs. Interesting eh?
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:28pm
I actually like milk and occasionally even have it with my dinner. I've switched from 2% to skim though (not alot people like skim). So I guess you can say I add it in b/c I like it. But I also eat a lot of yogurt as well. I like that as well. So my concern about getting enough calcium at my age is pretty much covered, even though I take a multi.

I have recenty seen those commercials for milk/weight loss. I think it's just a ploy from the dairy council though. Although, drinking any kind of milk is probably way better that sodas, sugar loaded fruit juices right?

This is all only my humble opinion and 2 cents!

Kerry

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 2:27pm
Starting a discussion about weight-loss issues, new ideas, is foolish? How so? This board is here for us to talk about these things, to get opinions... I'm very confused by your response.

Of course she knows about the food pyramid and dairy's place on it. Her post wasn't about whether we *should* drink milk/eat dairy, it was about the new "drink milk to lose weight" commercials. Did you not understand that?

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 6:22pm
Damn, was that deleted post directed at me? I missed it! What'd it say?????


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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 7:40pm
Bren, I am with you. Drinking milk is nasty. I take my daily calcium and leave the milk for the boys. About a year ago they were saying calcium helps you lose weight. Is it the calcium in the milk that helps you lose weight? Who knows? Anything in moderation will help you lose weight. I am waiting for the chocolate diet. Hugs, Brenda

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 8:24pm
Just a bunch of drivel about how you should know drinking milk is good for you, blah blah. And then more drivel about how you should be helping the hurricane victims. SOS, basically, you didn't miss anything (:

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 9:10pm
I don't know how I feel about the whole "drink milk lose weight thing." I also really, really dislike milk. I can't stand it. Funny thing is, if I have to drink it, I can only drink skim, the texture of anything higher fat makes me wanna vomit. I know most people think skim is nasty, but I can't imagine drinking a glass of full fat. I grew up on skim, so that's probably why.

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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 10:12pm
I used to drink whole milk and thought I would never get used to another milk consistency. But now its either 2%, 1% or skim. I cook with skim but when drinking a glass of milk, its 2%.
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 11:15pm
I grew up on skim and powdered, that's why I *can't* drink skim *shudder*

I never thought I could do without whole, but I'm down to 2% now, mostly for cooking/cereal though, I'm not big on drinking milk just for the sake of it hehe. Unless it's chocolate! Or any of the flavors, really.

In any case, if the next big dieting fad is drinking milk, I guess I'm not joining that bandwagon!

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Tue, 09-28-2004 - 2:35am
Am I the only here who actually likes milk?? I grew up drinking 2%, but switched to skim in high school. (I'd watched Dateline or 20/20 or something where the mother had secretly switched her family's 2% milk to skim, and no one noticed the difference. When I realized that skim didn't *taste* different, I made the switch.) I don't drink enough of it now, but I've been trying to drink it more often.

Anyway, I picked up Self magazine at the store last night, and it had an article on this very topic. "esearchers studied three groups of people on low calorie diets for six months. The group that lost the most weight--and the most belly fat--were those who consumed 1,200 to 1,300 milligrams of calcium daily from dairy products (roughly the amount in two 8-ounce glasses of milk and an 8-ounce container of plain yogurt). This group did better than those who got this amount of calcium from a mix of dairy and calcium supplements or those who had a low-calcium diet. . . . A review of studies in the May issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that over several years, those who had the highest intake of dairy weighed the least." Self, Oct. 2004, pp. 79-80.

Bren, you should look for chocolate skim milk. The cafeteria at my high school served plain 2% milk and chocolate skim milk, and most people drank the chocolate milk, probably not realizing that it was skim. Pretty tasty!

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