Originally Posted by
canuckbelle
Ok, as you are an academician I thought you perhaps had read these papers and have then at hand all together. This was my practice when I was an academician. I'd pull a group of papers to read them and them keep them all together, it was just more efficient to keep the results of any given lit search together.
The kind of paper you're referencing above I'm sorry IMO does not speak to advantage/disadvantage in performance outcome. They are reasonable studies to do for a number of reasons, but they are not intended I'm sure to speak directly to performance outcome. Instead, they are intended to talk about bone density between two groups or before/after. Period.
You just can't extrapolate that to performance and say science has concluded anything other than the impact on bone density (and even then you don't typically call it a conclusion until several studies find the same thing). This type of thing is commonly done but it's an incorrect application of the science.