Dairy Weight Loss - The "Perfect Drink" Myth

The problem with dairy for weight loss is that you are not a calf...

People who promote losing weight on dairy products have seemed to forget that the intent of a cow's milk is to turn a little calf into a 400 pound cow.

More dairy products are consumed in America than any other place on the face of the earth. The nation has among the highest obesity rates in the world!

You've seen the ads?

The ones that claim eating three servings of dairy a day can help you lose weight. These ads are based on a scientific study funded by dairy organizations...The study was small scale and the results suggested that eating a low calorie diet combined with three servings of dairy a day may help promote weight loss. The results were far from conclusive. Maybe it was the low calorie diet that had the positive affect?

A new study involving more than 12,000 children found that those drinking more than three servings of dairy daily were about 35% more likely to become overweight than those who drank one to two servings daily. I wonder what the results would have indicated if those who drank one to two servings of dairy a day, drank water instead...Perhaps the gap would have been far greater?

The problem with dairy weight loss isn't just dairy.

It is also the incredibly high chemical content that dairy contains. In an effort to produce more milk, cows are loaded down with hormones and antibiotics.

Guess where these chemicals wind up? In the milk that you drank today...

Advocates of dairy weight loss will also point to the increased calcium advantage of eating dairy products. They will never tell you that studies have shown that eating dairy products and other animal proteins actually remove calcium from the body. We consume more dairy than any other place on earth and we have among the highest rates of osteoporosis on earth. Other countries that consume almost no dairy have next to no instance of osteoporosis...

Where do grown cows get their calcium? Grown cows don't drink milk! They eat grass and other vegetation.

If you are looking to lose weight, dairy weight loss is not the answer. You can experience incredibly fast, healthy weight loss through other means.