Consumption of higher dairy and dietary protein during diet‐ and exercise‐induced weight loss promotes a metabolically favourable body composition change in overweight and obese young women

While diet and exercise induced body weight loss has significant health benefits, the ratio of fat:lean tissue loss may be more important. We aimed to determine how daily exercise and different hypoenergetic diets, varying in protein and calcium, affected changes in the tissue composition of weight lost in otherwise healthy young, overweight and obese women over 16wk. Ninety subjects were randomized to 3 groups (n=30 ea): HiDairyPro (HDP), …