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According to a new study, five servings of dairy products a day, and not three, keeps heart disease and diabetes away.
The study has proved that using higher amounts of dairy products along with a reduced calorie diet can help to lose weight along with reducing the risk associated with cardiovascular diseases.
Wendy Chan She Ping Delfos from Curtin's School of Public Health, who conducted the study, compared three servings of dairy products with five servings combined with a low cal diet on 12 obese patients for a period of 12 weeks.
The subjects who took five servings of dairy products lost more weight when compared to those who took 3 servings of dairy products. These participants also lost higher mean levels of fat mass, abdominal fat as well as witnessed a greater drop of systolic blood pressure.
"Many people commonly believe that when trying to lose weight dairy products are key foods that they have to cut out of their diet as they are high in fat," Chan Delfos said.
"Participants who had five serves of dairy and engaged in resistance exercise had similar health benefits to participants consuming five serves of dairy only," she said.
