Paper comment: Whey protein supplementation does not affect exercise training-induced changes in body composition and indices of metabolic syndrome in middle-aged overweight and obese adults.

I was going to post something else, but thought I would throw this up instead.

So, from the title you can see "Whey protein does not affect exercise training-induced changes in body composition"

Silly supplement companies, selling their whey protein for NO EFFECT.

Large study.  Lots more subjects than normally find in protein trials.  Middle aged, inactive people.  They should get some benefit from actually doing something, so whey sucks at doses ranging from 0, 20, 40 or 60g per day.

Man, they took all this protein and achieved nothing.

But, try and find the information that you would be interested in, and they hide it.  When it first came out I had to wait for the 'supplemental' information that was not available when it first came out.

The body composition changes.

 

So... nine months of exercise, with or without protein, and the fat inactive middle aged adults didn't really change body weight, lean body mass or fat mass.  Well, they lost a (significant) tiny bit of fat mass and gained an equally small amount of muscle.   NINE MONTHS!
But hey, they gained a minuscule bit of strength, which is within the range seen from learning how to perform an exercise.

These lovely folk got to use somebody elses money (Supported by the U.S. Whey Protein Research Consortium and NIH T32AG025671 and UL1RR025761), mess around with subjects for nine months, and even their training program is so modest that the people went away with little to no difference. Plus they get published in one of the leading nutrition journals.

Hard life for some.