Viking Dan
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The Miracle Diet Pill: Calcium?http://www.florida-agriculture.com/foodprograms/calcium.htm
Here's the intersting part:
| Quote: | The research began by accident in 1988 at the University of Tennessee where Dr. Michael Zemel was investigating the possibility that diets rich in calcium could reduce high blood pressure. He increased the dietary calcium of a group of obese African-American males by giving them two cups of yogurt per day. Not only did their blood pressures come down, but at the end of the one year study, these men had unexpectedly lost an average of 11 pounds, yet they consumed the same calories as the control group who did not lose weight.
Dr. Zemel initially was skeptical about the weight-loss results. However, more research showed that he might be onto something. Dr. Zemel and his associates analyzed the database created by a six-year survey on the health and nutrition status of 33,994 diverse individuals. He found that body fat was significantly lower in people who consumed more calcium, with all other factors being equal. In fact, people with high levels of calcium in their diet had dramatically reduced levels of obesity.
Dr. Zemel also set up a study in which obese mice were placed on a restricted diet but with varying levels and kinds of calcium. While the low-calcium diet resulted in an 11 percent loss in body weight and an 8 percent loss in body fat, the rats on the high- calcium diet lost 20 percent of their body weight and 42 percent of their body fat. When the calcium came from dairy products the results were even more striking -- these rats lost 25 percent of their body weight and 60 percent of their body fat. |
My take on this is that most people are probably not getting enough calcium, so these results probably only apply to people who are deficient. Megadosing hasn't seemed to have an effect.
Either way, a cal mag zinc supplement is cheap insurance for dieters.
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Avalon
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Darn, another double edged sword.
Lose weight and bone! or get bone, but it's prone to fracture! 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites...stractPlus&list_uids=15949902
| Quote: | | Strikingly, in countries with a high mean BMD, fracture rates in the elderly are significantly higher than in countries with a low mean BMD. Studies show that this is not based on genetic differences. Also, in primary hyperparathyroidism, on the brink of osteoporosis, BMD levels may be significantly higher than normal. Maybe, BMD does not represent long term bone health, but merely momentary bone strength. And maybe, maintaining a high BMD might actually wear out bone health. |
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Viking Dan
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I guess we should all add bone meal to our morning coffees.
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Avalon
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But whose Dan? WHOSE!!!???
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Viking Dan
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My neighbor who plays his music at Who-concert-decibel-levels on Sunday mornings comes to mind...
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