Milk and weight loss
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Milk and weight loss
| 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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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
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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Kerry
Hugs, Brenda
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Erin
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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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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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