There are a few hard truths about dieting. You must reduce your caloric intake and you must exercise to help convert some of your fat into muscle. However, there are a few truths the diet industry doesn’t want you to know about and are not going to tell you, such as revealing the name of a certain food that speeds the loss of fat from the body. This food works particularly well on the stubborn belly fat that is linked to heart disease and diabetes while it pumps up muscle. The amazing thing is that you this secret diet food is probably already in your home’s refrigerator.
Michael Zemel, director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee discovered this secret weight loss food purely by accident. While working with a group he treated for high blood pressure with calcium supplements he noticed a number of the participants wound up losing 11 pounds each without dieting. He believed the weight lost was exclusively a calcium effect and repeated the study with milk. The difference in the results between calcium and milk was astounding.
Zemel conducted randomized studies on over weight people. He fed them a calorie restricted diet, calcium supplements and diary food for 24 weeks. Those given a low dose calcium supplement lost 6.4% of their body weight. Those fed a high calcium supplement lost 7.7%. Finally those fed the equivalent amount of calcium in diary foods lost 10.9% of their body weight. Additionally the diary food participants discovered that two-thirds of their weight loss was in the abdomen.
When the body isn’t getting enough calcium it releases the hormone calcitriol. Calcitriol constricts blood vessel and acts as a metabolic switch in fat cells, signaling cells to maintain fat and make more of it from the stored sugars. High calcium levels suppress calcitroil. Diary products are rich in the amino acid leucine which stimulates the building of muscle and acts as a fat burning furnace. Zemel recommends dieters have at least three servings of low fat dairy foods daily. The body can not absorb more than 500 milligrams of calcium at a time.
At McMaster University, in Canada, Stuart Phillips discovered that fat free milk boosts the ability of exercise training to build muscle and burn fat even while the athletic consume extra calories. The effects are more pronounced among women than among men. He recommends two cups of fat free milk right after exercise and again an hour later.
Milk has the power to dissolve fat while building muscle. It contains peptides that suppress fat synthesis and acts as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Dairy has a extremely unexpected effect in targeting fat around the body’s midsection. What other diet food include spot reduction capabilities? Fat loss, muscle gain and exceptional body transformation, especially in women. What more could you ask for in a diet food?
Resources:
Local Woman Loses Weight With ‘Milk Diet’ – http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/4467943/detail.html
Skim Milk | Healthy Food of the Day – http://www.answerfitness.com/162/skim-milk-healthy-food-of-the-day/#more-162
To gain muscle and lose fat, drink milk: study – http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/mu-tgm080807.php
