Gain Muscle Lose Fat With Milk

Build Muscle With Milk

Milk. There's a lot of different opinion on the MOO-JUICE. Some say drink some say avoid. Personally, I drink. It's a great source of protein and makes bland protein powers taste much better.


So I did a Google search on milk and I found a study from McMaster University on the impact of drinking milk after heavy weightlifting. The result? Milk helps exercisers burn more fat.

McMaster researchers took three groups of young men 18 to 30 years of age – 56 in total – and put them through a rigorous, five-day-per-week weightlifting program over a 12-week period. Following their workouts, study participants drank either two cups of skim milk, a soy beverage with equivalent amounts of protein and energy, or a carbohydrate beverage with an equivalent amount of energy, which was roughly the same as drinking 600 to 700 milliliters of a typical sports drink.

Upon the study’s conclusion, researchers found that the milk drinking group had lost nearly twice as much fat – two pounds – while the carbohydrate beverage group lost one pound of fat. Those drinking soy lost no fat. At the same time, the gain in muscle was much greater among the milk drinkers than either the soy or carbohydrate beverage study participants.

“The loss of fat mass, while expected, was much larger than we thought it would be,” says Phillips, associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster. “I think the practical implications of these results are obvious: if you want to gain muscle and lose fat as a result of working out, drink milk.”

Here’s the link to the scientific article abstract: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/2/373