Diet and exercise work best together

by Chris Sparling (Subscribe to Chris Sparling's posts)
Feb 26th 2008 12:30PM

Categories: Healthy Aging, Womens Health, Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness, Nutrition & Supplements, Men's Health

Getting and staying physically fit involves a two-pronged approach: Diet and Exercise. Working with synergistic effect, diet and exercise will help you shed any unwanted pounds and even add some muscle tone, to boot. The key is to make sure hat you are consistent with both, especially since there is evidence to suggest that dieting alone will not reduce harmful abdominal fat cells. And, since a large waist can sometimes be an indicator of a litany of health problems, all measures should be taken to make sure that those fat cells stay away from your midsection.

To arrive to this discovery, researchers put 45 obese and overweight women on one of three exercise regimens: Diet only, Diet plus low-intensity exercise, and Diet plus high-intensity exercise. Twenty weeks later, all of the women saw a reduction in weight and their waistline, but the exercisers also showed a decrease of about 17 percent in the size of their abdominal fat cells. The non-exercisers' overall decrease in abdominal fat cells was less than 1percent, by the way.

This further proves the importance of exercising and eating right, especially since this information suggests that just doing one of the two may not be enough. But, worry not -- the study also showed that you don't have to run marathons or hike the Appalachian Trail in order to see results. Some low-intensity walking a few days a week will work just fine.

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Steev 2-26-2008 @ 1:11PM

they really needed to do a study for this? better if you both exercised and had a good diet...who knew.

B Brockus 3-13-2008 @ 12:24PM

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John Cavaliere 2-27-2008 @ 11:42AM

Hi Chris: Your comments on diet & exercise are right on. Here is a tip, I eat 2 egglands Best Eggs each morning , the protien helps keep me satisfied until lunch so I don't snack mid-morning. These eggs are also 25% lower in saturated fat and have 19% less cholesterol than ordinary eggs and they taste great.They are a bit more expensive but well worth it.