Everyone knows that milk is good for your wellness – it’s packed full of calcium and other nutrients. What you may not know, however, is that it can do more good to your weight-loss regime than any fitness programme.
Recent research seems to confirm that as well as being good for your wellbeing, dairy products can really help you to lose weight. Of course, you have to make sure that you only consume the low fat versions of these products, and you also have to make sure that you reduce your daily calorie intake and take plenty of exercise.
The recommended amount of dairy to help you lose weight is three servings or 24 ounces. Doctors and health professionals are now backing this idea, and say that dairy promotes weight loss around the middle of the body, which is a particularly tricky area to lose weight from. Drinking milk can also help you to build muscles, and having muscles can help you to exercise, as well as boosting your metabolism.
Another benefit to drinking milk and eating dairy products is that they fill you up quicker than other types of food, which means you are able to eat less of them. The proteins contained in dairy products also take a lot longer for our bodies to suggest because they contain water, and this makes us seem fuller faster and for longer.
This theory is not without critics, however, as some studies also seem to indicate that an increased intake of dairy products actually causes weight gain not weight loss.
For this reason, although the Dairy Council recommends that people should eat three servings of dairy per day, they also recommend that people should not exceed this quota, and should eat no more than three servings, to avoid counteracting the effects of the calcium with the effects of the included fat.
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