Not only are you healthier as a result, your comprehensive exercise program, which includes cardiovascular and weight-bearing exercise, is preventing further weight gain and allowing you to maintain muscle mass so your metabolism does not drop significantly as you get older.
Besides eating right, the other main component to losing weight is exercise.
In a recent continuing education meeting on the latest treatments for diabetes, there were the usual conversations of the difficulties in getting patients to lose weight, exercise, follow diets, keep their sugars down, and take their medication.
Excess belly fat seems to be particularly harmful, most likely because of its effects on inflammation and its association with elevated insulin levels, so if you tend to be more "apple shaped" and carry extra weight in your belly, it is especially important to lose weight, exercise regularly, and limit refined grains, sugar sweetened beverages, and added sugar in your diet.
The only things that have actually helped me significantly are substantial weight loss and exercise.
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He said falls could be prevented by measures such as encouraging the elderly to take weight-bearing exercise.
Type 2 can often be treated with diet modification and can improve significantly with weight loss and exercise.
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Someone with high cholesterol may benefit from dietary counseling, preferably by a dietitian, along with weight control and exercise.
Strength training also has positive benefits on bone maintenance and stability that eclipse the potential benefits of aerobic weight-bearing exercise.
Regular weight-bearing exercise, including running and walking, is important too.
Cost savings begin by preventing disease by eliminating smoking, and encouraging exercise and weight reduction.
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See one of my previous columns on breaking weight loss plateaus through exercise.
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Anaerobic exercise (weight or strength training) helps form bone density and builds muscle that more efficiently burns calories.
Five years before his campaign for president, the then-280-pound, 5-foot-11 governor embarked on a weight-loss and exercise program.
Finally, as with any cholesterol-lowering medication or supplement, eating a heart healthy diet, getting regular exercise and weight loss when appropriate should always be the first step toward lowering cholesterol.
For cardiovascular exercise, weight-bearing, higher-impact activities such as walking, jogging and aerobics are better than nonweight-bearing or lower-impact exercise such as swimming, cycling and elliptical machines, which put less strain on your muscles and bones.
This type of training can also help prevent weight loss plateaus, which often occur during weight loss accompanied by exercise because the fitter or trimmer that you are, the fewer calories you burn doing the same workout.
In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.
Still, most people could forestall this type of diabetes by keeping their weight down and taking some exercise.
She says she has quit smoking and enrolled in diabetes-education classes, which are helping her exercise and lose weight.
"For years I had been reading up on 'This is how you lose weight -- nutrition, exercise, '" he says.
But, increasingly, scientists are finding that a little weight training - and regular exercise - can help prevent some disabilities associated with age.
It says that since 1990 it has filed 93 cases challenging false and misleading weight-loss claims involving over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, commercial weight-loss centers, weight-loss devices and exercise equipment.
He said people should not focus on having to go to the gym to lose weight, but should build exercise - such as walking - into their everyday lives.
For this book, Mr. Crowley, a former litigator and fitness buff who confesses he still had a few pounds to lose himself, teamed up with Dr. Sacheck, a nutrition expert, to delve into the science of nutrition and its role, along with exercise, in weight loss.
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Somewhere around 57, I finally lost the weight through a serious commitment to exercise and diet.
He hasn't gained weight as a result of the exercise, and continues to eat pizza even when not conducting reviews.
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The exercise habit keeps our weight in check, our moods in check and the ups and downs of life easier to manage.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride), as an addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise, for chronic weight management.
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