Even though people ate more dairy, their body didn’t make more of the active form of vitamin D—so the hormone that might affect fat cells stayed the same.

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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 gave some people more dairy while they were dieting and found that their active vitamin D levels didn’t go up — so dairy doesn’t boost this specific form of vitamin D during weight loss.

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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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