Weight / Fat loss

There was a very interesting study done on the dietry benefits of live yoghurt. Basically the theory is that if you eat live yoghurt daily, you poo out a higher % of your fat intake.

The study involve monitoring total food intake, and its fat content. As well as total poo produced and its fat content. Even as a scientist, I was troubled by vision of sight of lab workers collecting someones poo each day, weighing and extracting the fat content.

Nasty.

I think they were advocating replacing X amount of calories with the equivalent amount of yoghurt, and saying you needed to get through 500g a day (possibly more?). Dutch study, following on from research at the University of Tennessee. It was something to do with dairy-based calcium.