Posted on 05/26/2010 11:44:20 AM PDT by decimon
HAMILTON, CANADA – Women who drink two large glasses of milk a day after their weight-lifting routine gained more muscle and lost more fat compared to women who drank sugar-based energy drinks, a McMaster study has found.
The study appears in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise.
"Resistance training is not a typical choice of exercise for women," says Stu Phillips, professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University. "But the health benefits of resistance training are enormous: It boosts strength, bone, muscular and metabolic health in a way that other types of exercise cannot."
A previous study conducted by Phillips' lab showed that milk increased muscle mass and fat loss in men. This new study, says Phillips was more challenging because women not only steer clear of resistance training they also tend to steer away from dairy products based on the incorrect belief that dairy foods are fattening.
"We expected the gains in muscle mass to be greater, but the size of the fat loss surprised us," says Phillips. "We're still not sure what causes this but we're investigating that now. It could be the combination of calcium, high-quality protein, and vitamin D may be the key, and. conveniently, all of these nutrients are in milk.
Over a 12-week period, the study monitored young women who did not use resistance-training exercise. Every day, two hours before exercising, the women were required not to eat or drink anything except water. Immediately after their exercise routine, one group consumed 500ml of fat free white milk; the other group consumed a similar-looking but sugar-based energy drink. The same drinks were consumed by each group one hour after exercising.
The training consisted of three types of exercise: pushing (e.g. bench press, chest fly), pulling (e.g. seated lateral pull down, abdominal exercises without weights), and leg exercises (e.g. leg press, seated two-leg hamstring curl). Training was monitored daily one on one by personal trainers to ensure proper technique.
"The women who drank milk gained barely any weight because what they gained in lean muscle they balanced out with a loss in fat" said Phillips. "Our data show that simple things like regular weightlifting exercise and milk consumption work to substantially improve women's body composition and health." Phillips' lab is now following this study up with a large clinical weight loss trial in women.
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Funding for the study was provided by McMaster University, CIHR, and the Dairy Farmers of Canada. McMaster University, one of four Canadian universities listed among the Top 100 universities in the world, is renowned for its innovation in both learning and discovery. It has a student population of 23,000, and more than 145,000 alumni in 128 countries.
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Milk in the morning, wine at night. Yah! That works!
Which is why one needs potassium...to help the sodium pass through the body without harm.
I grew up with raw milk. And I still drink whole milk and eat butter and I’ve been known to cook in lard and eat bacon. My cholesterol is always around 155-167.
Never stopped drinking milk (the real stuff). 50yo, 185lbs, jeans: 32-32.
“It’s a good way to head for a stroke in ten years or so. “
Sodium causes strokes?
Actually, there is such a thing as an Ice cream diet. You just can’t eat anything other than the ice cream.
Lol! I like the see food diet better. :)
I'll never forget the rude suprise that I had as a kid when I tasted milk from the grovery store after we sold the milk cow.
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Sodium increases blood volume and constricts capillary size, increasing blood pressure and often resulting in hypertension, a precursor, by roughly a decade, of strokes.
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“Sodium increases blood volume and constricts capillary size, increasing blood pressure and often resulting in hypertension, a precursor, by roughly a decade, of strokes”
I think you painted with a broad brush there.
Studies show that a minority of people have elevated blood pressure due to sodium intake. It does constrict capillaries and MAY cause hypertension — a known precursor of stroke — but the link between hypertension and sodium is not there for the majority of people.
A little late for this reply, but...
I’m a lactose-intolerant vegetarian. Makes life a little difficult.
Fortunately, a friend raises show chickens as a hobby!
Show chickens, sounds great. Probably difficult to get them to stay in a straight line and kick the same leg at the same time.
The funny part is where the Cochins try to hold a comb!
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