weight loss food : Calcium supplements could help women control weight
Middle-aged women could benefit from calcium supplements suggests a new study that is yet another twist to the calcium-dairy weight loss debate.
“Increasing total calcium intake, in the form of calcium supplementation, may be beneficial to weight maintenance, especially in women during midlife,” wrote lead author Alejandro Gonzalez from the University of Washington, Seattle.
The controversy may arise from the different population groups that have been studied. A study from Purdue University claimed that young women could burn more calories if they ate three or four dairy servings per day. However another report, also from Purdue, reported that increased dairy consumption had no effect on weight gain or loss.
And a recent study from Denmark with young girls suggested that dairy intake did benefit weight loss but this effect was not solely due to calcium content, thought earlier to be responsible for the weight loss seen in some trials.
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 106, pp. 1066-1073), brings the focus of the debate back to calcium with the researchers concluding that calcium, in the form of supplements, could be beneficial for weight control, but only in women.
“This article presents the largest analysis of calcium use and weight change among free-living middle-aged men and women,” said the researchers.
By Stephen Daniells
“Increasing total calcium intake, in the form of calcium supplementation, may be beneficial to weight maintenance, especially in women during midlife,” wrote lead author Alejandro Gonzalez from the University of Washington, Seattle.
The controversy may arise from the different population groups that have been studied. A study from Purdue University claimed that young women could burn more calories if they ate three or four dairy servings per day. However another report, also from Purdue, reported that increased dairy consumption had no effect on weight gain or loss.
And a recent study from Denmark with young girls suggested that dairy intake did benefit weight loss but this effect was not solely due to calcium content, thought earlier to be responsible for the weight loss seen in some trials.
A new study, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 106, pp. 1066-1073), brings the focus of the debate back to calcium with the researchers concluding that calcium, in the form of supplements, could be beneficial for weight control, but only in women.
“This article presents the largest analysis of calcium use and weight change among free-living middle-aged men and women,” said the researchers.
By Stephen Daniells
