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Calcium and Weight Loss
Calcium Can Help With Diet Efforts

by Mary Shomon

June 2004 -- A new study has found that consumption of calcium, and particularly, when the calcium comes from dairy foods, helps people lose more weight and fat than others eating the same calories. In the study, 41 obese people went on diets designed to achieve one pound a week weight loss, over a 24-week period. The group was divided -- some of the participants had low-calcium diets (no more than 430 mg a day), some had the same diet, plus supplementation to reach 1200 mg per day, and the rest had enough dairy to reach 1100 mg per day.

All the participants who completed the study lost weight. The low-calcium group lost an average of 15 pounds, the high-calcium group 19 pounds, and the high dairy group 24 pounds.


calcium.gif - 5946 Bytes NOTE FROM MARY: I have found calcium an essential part of my own weight loss regimen, and take as much as 2000 mg a day. I prefer to take a calcium/magnesium supplement, and have found a NOW formulation that also has much-needed Vitamin D, plus zinc, which is particularly good for the thyroid. (I also particularly like the NOW formulation because it's in a softgel. Big chalky calcium tablets tend to get stuck in my throat, so the softgels are MUCH easier for me to take. I like to take 1 or 2 softgels with each meal.) I get most of my vitamin and supplement products from Iherb.com, a reputable, low-cost online seller of various natural health products. Click here if you want to get this product at Iherb.





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