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Trying to lose weight? Calcium may help - High-calcium, low-calorie diets help obese mice lose weight at rates double those of mice given low levels of calcium, researchers report. They believe high levels of dietary calcium may suppress hormones that help us 'hold on' to stored fat. Studies in mice suggested that low-calcium diets help stimulate hormones that push dietary calcium into fat cells. These hormones also appear to 'switch on' fat-storing and fat-preserving mechanisms within fat cells. High-calcium diets seem to have the opposite effect -- suppressing these weight-gain hormones so that the mice stay thin. Animals placed on low-cal, low-calcium diets did lose a little weight -- about 11% of total body weight and 8% of total body fat. But obese mice placed on the high-calcium, low-cal diets "lost roughly a fifth of their body weight and 42% of their body fat over the next 6 weeks." And mice who got their calcium from dairy lost even more -- "a quarter of their body weight and 60% of their body fat," Calcium is also found in produce such as collards, turnip greens, rhubarb, broccoli and kale -- Reuters Health 2000 |
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