Milk Supplementation and Energy Balance.

Laval University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoporosis; Obesity

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Supplementation of milk (35% more calcium)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00729170

1_Tremblay

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the project is to determine if milk supplementation during a caloric restriction program facilitates the lost of weight, improves the appetite control and attenuates the decrease of bone mineral content in low-calcium consumer women.

Full description

Calcium deficiency is related to a higher risk of obesity. Some studies showed a lost of weight by elevating the calcium consumption to reach the recommended level. Milk supplementation could be a good alternative to reach this objective, but its impact on weight loss and on appetite sensations has not been verified. Furthermore, losing weight leads to some negative consequences like a decrease of bone mineral content. Considering the benefits of milk on bone health, a higher intake of this food product during weight loss could represent a healthy strategy.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low-calcium consumer (less than 800 mg daily)
• BMI between 27 to 42 kg/m2
• Sedentary
• Healthy

Exclusion criteria

• In menopause
• Medications that alter the project's objectives
• Smoker
• Dietary supplement consumer
• High alcohol or caffeine consumer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind