Dairy products like milk, cheese, yoghurt etc. can help dieters lose weight a new scientific study suggests.
For these findings the researchers reviewed 14 clinical trials involving 883 adults. The trials looked at how eating dairy food impacted on people's weight, body fat, waistlines and lean muscle mass. In the study published in the International Journal of Obesity, the authors said they wanted to reveal more about the relationship between weight loss and dairy consumption.
They note that increasing dairy intake without cutting energy intake might not lead to a significant change in weight. But if adults included three to four servings of dairy per day in an energy-restricted diet they were likely to experience weight loss, as well as decreasing the waistline.
Dairy Australia dietitian Glenys Zucco has welcomed the report but says more research is needed to understand how dairy foods increase weight loss when dieting.
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