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Article: Dairy Industry Dishonest in New Weight-Loss Gimmick Campaign; Industry Side-Steps Evidence that Dairy Products Increase Weight.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 20, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) blasts the National Dairy Council today for launching a deceptive campaign designed to push the false notion that consuming more dairy products leads to a trimmer waistline.
National Dairy Council's "Healthy Weight with Dairy" campaign, to be launched tomorrow, is based on studies performed on mice and on human studies that relied on calorie restriction. However, human studies in which individuals added dairy products to their diet did not result in weight loss, the doctors point out. Rather, dairy products have either had no effect at all or actually caused weight gain.
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