Calcium and Weight Loss:
Who would have imagined that Calcium, the 20th element in the periodic table would be such a boon for people who want to get into shape.
Discovery.com has an intresting article about the role of Calciun in helping a dieter. It is based on the study of agroup of Women. I recommend you read the whole article there. In case you are just passing by, here are some of the important excerpts of the article :-
When Dr. Robert Heaney, a calcium expert at Creighton University in Omaha, recently examined the health records of 575 women, he was astonished at the results. “We were looking at mid-life weight gain and found that women with the highest calcium intakes didn’t gain weight and those with the lowest did,” Dr. Heaney said.
Similarly, at the University of Tennessee, Michael Zemel, Ph.D., reported that because calcium plays a key role in metabolic disorders linked to obesity and insulin resistance, a diet low in calcium literally stockpiles fat cells while higher calcium diets depletes them. Dr. Zemel discovered that a high calcium diet released a hormone which sends signals that are read by the body’s fat cells to lose weight.
Both exercisers and couch potatoes seemed to benefit unless they consumed more than 1,900 calories daily. All researchers said that dining on calcium-rich dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt achieved greater weight loss than leafy green vegetables, nuts, beans and supplements.
Calcium and Blood Pressure:
In some people, an increase in calcium consumption can help control blood pressure without anti-hypertensive medication.
Calcium and Cholesterol:
A high-calcium regimen reduced levels of total cholesterol by six percent and slashed “bad” LDL cholesterol by 11 percent. So-called “good” HDL cholesterol levels remained unchanged.
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