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Dairy Council Digest Archives
Weight Control: An Emerging Beneficial Role for Dairy
Summary
The escalating rise in overweight and obesity among children and adults has led to national efforts to reverse this trend. Recent statistics reveal that an estimated 61% of U.S. adults, 13% of children, and 14% of adolescents are either overweight or obese.
Genetic and environmental factors (e.g., diet, physical activity) influence body weight. Recognizing that even small differences in energy balance (i.e., 10kcal/ day) over the long-term influence body weight and adiposity, researchers are seeking easily achievable and sustainable interventions to induce a small shift to a negative energy balance. Emerging research indicates that increasing consumption of dairy foods may be one such intervention to help reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity.
Unfolding evidence from in vitro , experimental animal, and human studies indicates an anti-obesity effect of calcium and dairy foods such as milk, cheese, and yogurt. Results demonstrate that dairy foods have a more favorable effect on body weight and adipose tissue mass than a similar amount of elemental calcium. In vitro and experimental animal studies suggest a potential mechanism for calcium in weight regulation. High calcium diets, by suppressing 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, reduce the amount of calcium in fat cells, which in turn increases fat breakdown and reduces fat storage. This mechanism explains in part dairy¹s beneficial effect on weight.
Studies in children and adults link increased calcium/dairy intake with decreased body weight or body fat. In a five-year study of preschool children, higher intakes of calcium and dairy foods were associated with lower body fat. An analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) demonstrates a reduction in the risk of overweight in women with increases in calcium and dairy food intake. In a randomized exercise intervention trial of normal weight young women, those who consumed high calcium intakes, corrected by total energy intake, gained less weight and body fat over two years than women on low calcium intakes. Re-analyses of data from observational studies and controlled trials designed with primary skeletal endpoints support an anti-obesity effect of calcium.
New research reveals that overweight young adults who consumed the most dairy foods over a ten-year period were at lower risk of becoming obese and developing insulin resistance syndrome than those who consumed few dairy foods. Obesity and insulin resistance syndrome are risk factors for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The researchers suggest that the decline in consumption of milk and dairy foods, accompanied by an increase in soda intake and snacking among children and adolescents in recent decades, may be an important factor contributing to the current epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Unfortunately, people trying to lose weight often mistakenly eliminate or reduce dairy foods from their diet for fear of fat. This approach to weight management may be counterproductive. Consuming at least three daily servings of dairy foods such as milk, yogurt, and cheese within an appropriate energy level is emerging as a dietary behavior with the potential to help prevent and treat overweight and obesity. This is in addition to the more established benefits of dairy foods in helping to reduce the risk for osteoporosis, hypertension, and some cancers.
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