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Originally Posted by Etana
Do you think dairy (greek yogurt and no fat cottage cheese) could stall weight loss? I eat them daily.
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Interesting you should ask.
I watched the truth about food last night. There was a segment on a couple of danish researchers that concluded that dairy helps weight loss.
Basically they fed test subjects a controlled diet rich in dairy and collected the subjects stool.
They then fed the same subjects a diet low in dairy and collected their stool.
It should be noted that the diets were strictly controlled to have the same amount of fat and calories.
The researchers then extracted the undigested fat from the stool from both diets and compared the fat grams.
In their study they observed that the diet rich in dairy resulted in 50% less fat being absorbed by the body. The study also found that the calcium in the dairy binded to the dietary fat and created a soap like substance in the small intestine. This 'soap' could not be digested and so passed through.
After this initial study, other researchers jumped on the bandwagon and came up with similar conclusions.
It appears eating dairy actually improves ones ability to diet sucessfully and is unlikey to cause a stall in weight loss, as long as your calorie level remains consitent with your needs.