Swedish Study: Whole Milk Causes Weight Loss

[lwood]

http://www.thelocal.se/6019/20070108/

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Full fat milk makes you thinner - Swedish study

Published: 8th January 2007 10:54 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/6019/

Full fat dairy products are more likely to keep you slim than comparable low fat foods. That's the apparently topsy-turvy conclusion of a new Swedish study, which shows that the fat encourages calcium uptake.

Researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute now reckon that daily consumption of full fat dairy products will lead to a reduction of obesity, reported Svenska Dagbladet.

--for the rest, read the article, but there's not much more than that.

Snagged from macraven, aka Dave "Daithi" Haxton, your one-stop shop for heathen geeky farmer ranty needs--who reminds you that food that's been dicked around with less is better for you.

-- Lorrie

Comments

Yeah

[purplevenus.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather deal with calories than chemicals.

Re: Yeah

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Apparently the milk fat helps a lot with calcium uptake.

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

You know, and this supports the main thesis of a book I got recently, "Nourishing Traditions," so interesting to have it pop up elsewhere. Something I'm going to try out when I'm not on the special Splodey Gall Bladder Diet. :P

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I have a rant about corn syrup as evil, but it doesn't have enough facts to look like anything but silly Granola Bowl foolishness. ;P

-- Lorrie

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

I remember reading a few studies and articles that would back you up, but as I don't remember where they were they are not of much use for lore-pointing.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Apparently The Omnivore's Dilemma has a bit on this. I just avoid corn syrup when practical--happily, I have no real food taboos/intolerances, but I figure not eating stupid NOW may help avoid that LATER and allow a certain amount of latitude while on the road.

-- Lorrie

[mordantcarnival.livejournal.com]

But the diet industry loves me and wants me to be everything that I can be! That's why it crafts me special food with only half the food of regular food and only 54% more chemicals.

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Most of the chemicals taste funny anyway.

--Ember--

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

Corn syrup.

-- Lorrie (it's EVIL I tell yooooou)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Wow! Tell me more!

-- Lorrie

[mordantcarnival.livejournal.com]

Certainly! Just repeat after me:

The diet industry is my shepherd, I shall not want (second helpings).
It maketh me to chow down on lean repasts. It leadeth me beside the still flavour waters (same aisle as the Pepsi Max). It destroyeth my self-esteem. It leadeth me into the paths of righteousness (by using crappy psuedo-Xtian Heaven/Hell imagery to ensure that I will always associate regular unprocessed food with the latter and saintly diet food with the former) for its gain's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the food-hall in the shadow of weight, I will fear no vittle, for it is with me. It prepareth me a (high-sodium, high-priced) banquet in the presence of mine enemies (fat and calories, because artificial sweetners and fat replacers are my friends). It anointeth my head (of lettuce) with oil-free dressing; my Crystal Lite Slurpee runneth over.

Surely, weightloss and relapse shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will unnacountably continue to swell in the House of the Lard forever and ever, or at least until I learn to stop eating this fake grot and get a clue.

Amen.

[lastwaykeeper.livejournal.com]

LOL. Much much much kudos.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Omeyn.

(the Hebrew being more appropriate as you were pastiching a Psalm, after all)

-- Lorrie

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

I admit, it seems to depend on how the chemical is made. Things that are made through classic distillation and such don't taste as funny as things that involve more complicated processes, as far as I can tell.

Then again, some things taste pretty funny in their natural state.

But fake fat and artificial sweetner and such taste yucky. Honey tastes better than sugar crystals. Etc.

--Ember--

[lwood.livejournal.com]

pentaclemoon wanted to bring cookies that were half-Splenda, half-sugar, and I had to ask that she please not do that, because that tastes funny.

She did, which shows she is a very good egg.... 8-)

-- Lorrie

[wolfs-daugher.livejournal.com]

odd. I have never noticed the difference in flavor. It all just tastes sweet.

Sparrow

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you know better than to play with sugar in the first place. *grin*

Anyway, the fakes all leave differently bad false, off, and bad tastes in my mouth. Bleh.

-- Lorrie

[lastwaykeeper.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I can't stand the taste of diet sodas. Aspertame is just nauseatingly off. Honey and brown sugar all the way! :P

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Ew, yecky, ptui, NOT FOOD OMG.

-- Lorrie

[ardaniel]

I am Wedge's official food taster when it comes to unlabeled sodas; all diet soda tastes like baby aspirin to me, and thus I can immediately detect whether or not the waitron got him a diet soda or One What'll Fuck Him Up. ;)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

And aspartame -> formaldehyde in the stomach. Um.

If I'm gonna pickle my innards, it'll be with ethyl alcohol, thanks.

-- Lorrie

[hagazusa.livejournal.com]

The UK has decided that CHEESE (the full fat variety) is a junk food and will now prohibit cheese commercials during children's TV shows. There goes Wallace & Gromit! (Cheeeeeeeese, Gromit!)

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did read that and was similarly appalled; I wonder what will happen in light of the Swedish study...but I'm relatively sure that such publication of the results was influenced by the BBC cheese business.

-- Lorrie

Re: Milk

[anthony-arndt.livejournal.com]

I can believe it. In the US I drank skim (because I know how bad homogenization is for you, humans should not drink formaldahyde). Here in Russia I drink 3.2% or higher. I've lost so much weight that I am now wearing jeans smaller than when I graduated from High School in 1994. I haven't changed my diet much, it's almost entirely due to food being less processed here and a lot of the chemicals and hormones that taint American food being either illegal or too expensive for Russian farmers.

Re: Milk

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Hey, in our snooty stores, you can get unhomogenized milk: has a nice fat cream layer on top, comes in glass bottles of which one's grandmother would definitely approve. 8-)

But I do hear you about the diet, and I'm not surprised, either.

Mmm, mole poblano tamales with chipoltle salsa...

-- Lorrie

Switched back to whole milk

[auntiematter.livejournal.com]

When I got to Baltimore. I am now a 22 an holding. Some size 20 stuff fits me. I was a 26 when I arrived four years ago.

Re: Switched back to whole milk

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I believe it!

And that's including the effects of importing a pastry chef!

-- Lorrie

[lysana.livejournal.com]

Now, while I love Splenda for not tasting funny to my palate and shun aspartame for multiple reasons, I cannot stand low-fat milk or its more watery cousins. I think it's ridiculous. Fat isn't anywhere near as much an enemy as sugar once you chuck the good-for-nobody trans fats, but because the sugar and corn lobby have a bigger in with the government, we get convinced it's OK to eat lots of carbs. Er, no.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I reckon that a healthy diet ought to involve a wide variety of food, very little of which should be bleached white--one's plate ought to be a riot of color when possible.

However, since the Middle Ages, white food--particularly flour--has been seen as better food, even if its taste is pallid and boring. There's a lot of inertia behind this big, fat, blobby meme.

-- Lorrie, speaker of the Granola Bowl. ;)