Calcium Supplementation May Not Improve Weight Loss in Obese Patients

Here's one that you won't see Big White talking about.

"Dietary supplementation with elemental calcium, 1500 mg/day, for 2 years may not improve weight loss in overweight and obese adults, according to the results of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial reported in the June 16 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

'Some data suggest that increasing calcium intake may help prevent weight gain,' write Jack A. Yanovski, MD, PhD, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues...

'Dietary supplementation with elemental calcium, 1500 mg/d, for 2 years had no statistically or clinically significant effects on weight in overweight and obese adults,' the study authors write. 'Calcium supplementation is unlikely to have clinically significant efficacy as a preventive measure against weight gain in such patients.'"

Why would they when they can keep doing IMHO dishonest PR like this, for example.