#190...so let's address this milkshake issue....(since andrea asked)

a fellow journaler absinthemnded recently posted on her cravings for a frosty tall milkshake..but..because she is trying to stick to her diet (like we all are) she is using all of her tricks and all of her willpower to NOT give into milkshakeheaven temptation...

I applaud her efforts, but at the same time I feel sorry for her struggles...and I told her so in a comment I left - then andreakingme asked me to 'splain...so here 'tis...

ladies - listen up...MILKSHAKES ARE NOT BAD FOR YOU. well, not in the ways that we always believed them to be...with a little ingenuity and some clever calculating - we need not remove them from our diets..

I can hear you all saying - "Oh really. Well, prove it.".....well, quite serendipitously, thanks to our little obese rodent friends at Perdue University, research has found that increasing the amount of calcium in your diet actually helps you lose weight.

"Women who consumed an average of 1,000 milligrams of calcium per day, which is slightly below the recommended daily allowance for this age group, showed an overall decrease in body weight as high as six to seven pounds," Teegarden says.

"Oh, my!...How can this be, nurse floralilia?"  Well I am glad you asked, my leetle grasshoppers... "As dietary calcium intake increases, it acts at the cellular level to alter energy metabolism so that more food energy is burned and less is stored as fat. This is the conclusion of researchers at the University of Tennessee’s Department of Nutrition who studied the effect of dietary calcium levels in mice."

and wait, that's not all...(continued above)