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There’s more good news for dieters who like their dairy products according to the National Dairy Council.

A new clinical trial, published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition by researchers at Purdue University, found that women burned more fat and more calories after a meal when their diets included 3-4 servings of dairy daily. “From the results of this study, we put together a rough calculation based on the increased fat burned from a meal that suggests a high dairy diet followed over a year could potentially result in the loss of 10 pounds of fat a year,” commented Dorothy Teegarden, Ph.D., lead investigator and professor of nutrition at Purdue University.

That’s a big wow! You can also find a story on this new study here.

Dairy Management, Inc. is gearing up to work on consumer sales according to the latest news out of their annual meeting in San Francisco. As the headline says, ““It’s not enough to build demand. Producers demand that we build sales.”

Dairy promotion’s 2006 industry vision will help U.S. dairy producers grow their businesses by working to convert milk into products consumers really want, said Tom Gallagher, chief executive officer of Dairy Management Inc.™ (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff program. Gallagher spoke with more than 1,000 dairy producers and other industry representatives attending the 2005 National Dairy Board/United Dairy Industry Association/National Milk Producers Federation Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Much of today’s dairy industry is production-driven, as opposed to consumer-driven, and thereby ignores unmet demand, Gallagher said. Total growth of dairy in traditional forms – such as white milk in gallons, American-style cheeses sold domestically, and mozzarella – will grow only slightly over the long haul.

“This depicts current dairy sales in a production-driven industry. The problem is, this approach ignores POTENTIAL sales,” Gallagher said, adding that the industry must define the market by what consumers want.

If you want more information about the meeting and the dairy checkoff visit Dairy Checkoff Works.

Here’s an interesting item about the raw milk situation in Washington state. This is from an AP story. Basically, it looks like the Washington state dept. of agriculture wants people producing and selling raw milk to be licensed and regulated or shut down.

To combat this 2 groups have been formed, the Washington Association of Shareholder Dairy Owners and Raw Dairy Choice Campaign.

I can’t remember when I’ve had raw milk. I know it was in my bottle as a baby since my grandfather had a dairy next to where my home was. But then we started getting it delivered in bottles and pasteurized. Nowdays we get it as 1%, 2%, etc. I only like it whole myself. The story mentions microdairies. Kind of sounds like micro breweries. A nice place to go get a cold bottle of freshly bottled home brew, er, milk.