Not all milks are created equal (for bone health) 🥛🐮

Dairy topping the charts.

Muscle performance and bone density following a multi-intervention program with milk or soy milk supplementation in older adults: quasi-experimental study

Study Details

This new study recruited 82 older adults to an 8-week study where they were assigned to either…

1️⃣ Exercise alone

2️⃣ Exercise plus nutritional education (NE)

3️⃣ Exercise plus NE with milk supplementation

4️⃣ Exercise plus NE with soy milk supplementation

Exercise consisted of resistance training 3x per week 🏋️‍♀️

Muscular performance and bone health was assessed pre- and post-intervention 🔍

Key Findings

All groups improved walking speed🚶‍♀️

Group 3️⃣ achieved greater gains in…

👊 Handgrip strength than Group 2️⃣ (-0.84 kg) and Group 4️⃣ (+0.52 kg)

🦴 Total bone mineral density (BMD; +0.01 vs. -0.06 g/cm2) compared with Group 1️⃣

Groups 2️⃣ to 4️⃣ also exhibited greater increases in upper-limb BMD vs group 1️⃣

Conclusion

Exercise combined with NE and protein supplementation, particularly dairy milk, may be associated with favourable bone health in older adults ✅

Reference

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41576679/

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