Fighting obesity with dairy
Curtin research has shown that a higher intake of dairy products while on a reduced calorie diet can help fight obesity.
Benefits include greater weight loss and significant improvements in the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
As part of her PhD research, Dr Wendy Chan She Ping Delfos, from Curtin's School of Public Health, compared three serves of dairy with five serves of dairy within a reduced calorie diet prescribed to overweight participants over a 12-week weight loss trial.
The study found that participants who consumed five serves of dairy as opposed to three had:
- higher mean levels of weight loss
- higher mean levels of fat mass loss
- greater drop of systolic blood pressure and
- greater total percentage abdominal fat loss.
The study was funded by the ATN Centre for Metabolic Fitness and Diabetes Australia.
