The more likely conclusion is that dropouts in the low sugar group returned to old beverage consumption habits in the interim, thereby muddling the intervention effect on the 18-month results.
People in this group were also the only ones who showed a significant increase in their maximum oxygen consumption (which measures the capacity for aerobic exercise) compared to the non-exercising control group.
With per-capita U.S. milk consumption down 36% between 1970 and 2011, an industry trade group spokesman recently admitted something everybody already knew: The dairy business is in trouble.