Eat This To Keep Muscles, Lose Belly Fat

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Food cures come, food cures go, but one that always floats around a healthy diet is the dairy family.
Our natural health is boosted by low-fat dairy products such as milk and yogurt.
A new study says if you wish to trim belly fat and increase lean muscle, you might consider dairy more strongly.
Specifically, a study found that a higher-protein, lower-carbohydrate energy-restricted diet has a major positive impact on body composition.
And that is especially so when the proteins come from dairy products.
The study, published now in the “Journal of Nutrition,” compared three groups of overweight and obese premenopausal women.
Each consumed either low, medium or high amounts of dairy foods coupled with higher or lower amounts of protein and carbohydrates.
They also exercised every day for four months.
The routine included five days of aerobic exercise and two days of circuit weightlifting.
Both groups shed identical amounts of weight — but the higher-protein, high-dairy group experienced greater whole-body ...
... fat and abdomen fat losses, greater lean mass gains, and greater increases in strength. The fat composition of the lost weight has, the researchers say, huge gains for long-term health.
All the weight dropped in the dairy group was fat. Meanwhile, the women gained muscle mass.
This translates into a major change in body composition.
Even preserving muscles is very important for maintaining metabolic rate and preventing weight regain.
The study found that the lower-protein, low-dairy group lost about a pound and a half of muscle.
But the lower-protein, medium-dairy group lost almost no muscle.
And then, in the higher-protein, high-dairy group, there was a gain of a pound and a half of muscle.
Plus, that group dropped twice as much belly fat as the lower-protein, low-dairy group.
These results are pretty big, as abdominal fat is particularly bad for health.
This study seems to show that boosting calcium and protein in the diet may help to further promote loss of fat from the worst storage area in the body.
What’s more: the women got stronger and fitter through the exercise.
One note to consider when you analyze a study is any organizations or companies that may have funded it.
In this case, the major dairy organizations of both Canada and the U.S. were funders. That said, results remain results.

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