Milk and Weight Loss

Milk does a body good and your waistline?  According to a new study out of the Journal Nutrition and Metabolism, people were separated into two groups, those who followed a diet that included one serving of dairy and the other group followed a diet that included the recommended three servings of dairy each day.  Those in the group who at the recommended three servings of dairy ate 13% more calories a day on average but maintained their weight as well or better as those who ate less.

The study proves that having the recommended three servings of dairy a day may let you eat more without gaining more weight and their is a correlation between milk and weight loss.  Credit the findings to the combo of calcium and leucine, an amino acid that promotes fat burning, according to study author Michael B. Zemel, PH.D., of the University of Tennessee.

Get your full three dairy servings a day in with these yummy calcium packed suggestions:

• 1 glass sugar-free chocolate skim milk
• 1 reduced-sugar yogurt
• 1/2 cup reduced-fat cottage cheese
• 1 serving reduced-fat pepper jack cheese
• 1 mozzarella string cheese stick
• 1/2 cup vanilla frozen yogurt