There is no fairy dust for weight loss – but people who consume a lot of dairy are slimmer, so says the epidemiological evidence. Can functional foods like dairy help consumers leverage personal lifestyle changes?

This webinar will cover the following:

• Where does the science stand with dairy?
• What are the active ingredients – is it just related to calcium?

Speaker:

Prof Michael Zemel
Director for Obesity and Metabolic Disease
University of Tennessee

Dr. Michael Zemel is a professor of nutrition and medicine and the Director of The Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He also serves as Director of America On the Move in Tennessee. Dr. Zemel received his graduate training in Nutritional Sciences & Physiology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He served as assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and the Endocrinology Division of the Department of Medicine at Wayne State University from 1980 until assuming his present position in 1990. He was also Research Endocrinologist at the VA Medical Center, affiliated with the Wayne State University School of Medicine from 1987-1990.

Moderator:

Dr Stephen Daniells
Senior Editor
NutraIngredients-USA.com

Stephen Daniells is the senior editor for NutraIngredients-USA.com. He has a PhD in chemistry from the Queen's University of Belfast and held post-doctoral research positions at the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands) and the University of Montpellier (France). He has been writing about nutrition science and food science for five years. Stephen lives and works in the south of France.