People on a reduced-calorie diet containing 1500 mg of calcium per day (high-calcium) for three months excreted an average of 5.8 grams of fat per day—52 calories of fat—according to a study by researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This represented 10.2 percent of the total fat that they ate. “During a moderate energy restriction induced weight loss, a high-[calcium] diet causes an increase in fecal fat excretion,” the authors of the study concluded.
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