2.1. Dietary Intervention
HD
Eligible subjects were randomly allocated to either the high dairy product consumption condition (HD), instructed to consume at least four servings per day following the serving sizes recommended by Canada’s Food Guide for Healthy Eating (2007) [Each intervention period lasted for 6 weeks, followed by a 6-week washout period, after which subjects were switched to the other intervention. A previous meta-analysis involving 38 studies revealed a range of exposure durations from 1 to 48 weeks. Notably, 13 of these studies had intervention periods lasting 6 weeks or less [