Drinking milk may slow women’s knee arthritis

By Shereen Jegtvig NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The more milk women drank in a new U.S. study, the less deterioration they experienced in their arthritic knees. It’s not certain that milk was the reason for the slower arthritis progression, researchers said, and the effect was not seen in men. “Milk is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, dairy calcium and protein and has long been recognized for its important role in bone health,” Dr. Bing Lu told Reuters Health in an email. Lu, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, led the study, which was published in Arthritis Care and Research.