Diabetes Health in The News: Study Indicates Weight Loss Needs to be Paired with Exercise for Mitochondrial Capacity Increase

Overweight adults need to eat a healthy diet and exercise in order to improve mitochondrial respiratory capacity, a new study by faculty at Florida Hospital in Orlando shows.

Twenty-six adults participated in the study. All were categorized as obese. The participants were split into three different types of health interventions: Health education (nine participants), calorie-restrictive diet (seven), and calorie restrictive diet plus exercise (ten). The participants followed the assigned program for six months. Before and after, a percutaneous muscle biopsy of the vastus lateralis was done to determine results.

After six months, the first two groups showed little to no change in mitochondrial respiratory capacity. The third group, however, did show significant improvements. The study’s conclusion was that for this capacity to increase, individuals need to eat healthily and exercise regularly.

 

These findings were published in The American Physiological Society Press Release on August 28, 2017.

 

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  • October 28, 2017 at 2:31 am
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    To be healthy and fit exercise is the best way ever we have found. This is proven that those people doing exercise regularly, they face less numbers of decease I the life. This is awesome content. I have found some effective tips from this one. I am also not careful on that case. From now I will try my level best to do that. Thanks

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