Milk Really Does Do the Body Good

A University of Tennessee study found that people who ate a daily 1,200 milligrams (mg) of calcium from dairy lost an average of 24 pounds, or 11 percent of their total body weight.

When you don’t have enough calcium in your diet, you are more efficient at making fat and less efficient in breaking down fat, causing a bigger, fatter fat cell.

Get just the right amount by taking in two 8 ounce glasses of low fat milk (699mg), a cup of low fat yogurt (338mg), and an ounce and a half of cheese (287mg).