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Milk and dairy products in human nutrition
group consumed a carton of 330 ml of milk fortified with calcium each school day
over the study period; the second group of girls received the same quantity of milk
additionally fortified with 5 mg or 8 mg of cholecalciferol; the third was a control
group and received no milk. When the relative percentage changes (the percentage
changes from baseline, rather than the absolute values) were considered, the
increases in height, sitting height and body weight after two years of the girls in the
two supplemented groups were significantly greater than those of the girls in the
control group. When the data were adjusted for menarcheal status, the effects of the
milk supplement on bone were still apparent.
In an American study, a group of healthy young Caucasian females with an average
baseline age of 10.8 years were followed for seven years, to cover the pubertal
growth spurt and late adolescence (Matkovic et al., 2005). One cohort participated
in a long-term double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial with calcium supplementation,
and the other participated in an observational study with higher
calcium intakes from dairy products. By an average age of 15 years, the dairy-group
subjects remained significantly taller (P