Eating more dairy doesn’t make fat cells shrink faster when people are on a diet—both groups’ fat cells got smaller at about the same rate.

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Dairy Foods in a Moderate Energy Restricted Diet Do Not Enhance Central Fat, Weight, and Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Losses nor Reduce Adipocyte Size or Inflammatory Markers in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Controlled Feeding Study

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2011

The study found that eating more dairy didn’t make fat cells shrink any faster during a diet — whether people ate a little or a lot of dairy, their fat cells got smaller at the same rate.

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Dairy Foods in a Moderate Energy Restricted Diet Do Not Enhance Central Fat, Weight, and Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Losses nor Reduce Adipocyte Size or Inflammatory Markers in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Controlled Feeding Study

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DOI: 10.1155/2011/989657

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