Healthy Weight

Studies indicate that a diet containing adequate amounts of milk products could make it easier to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Our research summaries, which you will find inside the Articles and Studies Finder filter below, offer you an objective look at studies published up to 2008.

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Healthy Weight: Research Synopsis

Large population studies, randomized controlled trials and mechanistic studies in humans support a beneficial role for adequate or higher intakes of milk products, as part of a healthy diet, in weight management, and the possible prevention of overweight and obesity in both adults and children.

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Healthy Weight: What Review Articles Indicate

In their comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the role of calcium and/or milk products in weight management, Heaney and Rafferty (2009) summarized the findings in this area of research. 31 randomized controlled trials and metabolic studies were evaluated. 17 of these...
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Healthy Weight: What Randomized Control Trials Show

Several randomized controlled trials have been conducted to address the hypothesis of an association between milk product consumption or calcium intake and body weight in adults, children and adolescents.
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Healthy Weight: Results from Epidemiological Studies

Data from the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I), a cross-sectional study of the dietary intakes of 10,372 US adults aged 18 to 74 years demonstrated an association between increased calcium intake and lower body mass index.
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Healthy Weight: Results from Studies in Adults

Epidemiological studies suggest that over time, adults who consume a diet low in calcium and milk products diet tend to gain more weight and/or body fat than those with higher intakes.^1-9
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Healthy Weight: Results from Studies in Children and Adolescents

Epidemiological studies and randomized controlled trials have shown that adequate or higher intakes of dietary calcium and milk product consumption are associated with less body fat in children and adolescents.
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Potential Mechanisms of the Effects of Milk Products on Healthy Weight

Although the impact of calcium and milk products on energy metabolism and adiposity is still the topic of ongoing research, several types of studies have confirmed the theory’s biological plausibility, including animal studies, epidemiological studies and clinical trials.¹
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Other Effects of Calcium on Healthy Weight

In addition to its role on on intracellular calcium levels and fat absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, calcium may have an effect on lipid metabolism and on appetite.
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Healthy Weight: Potential Effects of Other Dairy Components

It has been proposed that other bioactive components in milk products, which may act either independently or synergistically with dietary calcium, may also play an important role in energy metabolism.¹
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New Potential Mechanisms of the Effects of Milk Products on Healthy Weight

Emerging research also indicates a beneficial role for milk products on inflammation and oxidative stress,¹ two mechanisms which may be involved in the etiology of obesity and associated complications.
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Milk Products and Weight : The Importance of the Threshold Effect

Although the evidence is still in its infancy, it is believed that there is a threshold level of calcium intake, above which there may be no further benefits with respect to weight management.
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