Is Your Judgement Clouded by the Milk?
Watch out — it’s coming to a place near you!
Specifically, it’s an event called “The Great American Weight Loss Challenge”, and it’s on the move.
It’s going around the country on a 75-city tour, supposedly encouraging people to sign up for a 12-week plan that provides the tools to lose weight in a healthy way.
Sponsored by the nation’s milk processors and dairy farmers, the event consists of free wellness events and research information that shows a connection between milk and weight loss.
Now here’s the problem…
The connection between milk and weight loss is not exactly what they preach.
And I don’t want you to be misled.
Drinking milk is not a weight loss strategy.
In fact, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) petitioned the FDA on June 9th, requesting it put an end to false and misleading claims by dairy product manufacturers that contend milk consumption promotes weight and fat loss.
PCRM is calling on the FDA to declare all dairy products labeled with these claims as “misbranded,” to institute a product recall, and to require the manufacturers to publish corrective ads and food labels.
“The vast majority of scientific studies show that milk either causes weight gain or else has no effect at all on weight or body fat,” says Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., senior nutrition scientist of PCRM. “Nonfat milk is 55 percent sugar, while whole milk is nearly 50 percent fat, as a percentage of calories. Neither one is a formula for weight loss.”
And in another study published in April, it was found that women who added extra milk to their diets for a year lost no more weight than women who consumed the same number of calories, but drank less milk.
Again, I need to point out the obvious: Nobody is saying that you shouldn’t drink milk.
It’s just that you need to be careful about the amount of milk you drink.
Milk is not the magical weight loss food/drink.
It does not mean that the more you drink, the more weight you’ll lose.
In fact, it’s just the opposite.
If you drink too much milk, you’ll be guaranteed to put on the pounds.
Tracy Lee
Weight Loss for Women Over 40
