Author Interviews, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Exercise - Fitness, Weight Research / 13.05.2015
Dietary Restriction Provides Benefits Beyond Weight Loss
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Edward "Ted" Weiss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Saint Louis University Saint Louis MO
Medical Research: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Dr. Weiss: Results from one of our previous study yielded a surprising result that diet-induced weight loss improved insulin sensitivity (major diabetes risk factor) by the same amount as exercise induced weight loss. We thought that the exercise-induced weight loss would have yielded benefits from the weight loss itself but also from a weight loss-independent benefit that has been reported in other studies. One explanation for dietary restriction providing the same benefit of exercise was that it also provides benefits besides those that are attributable to weight loss. Our recently completed/published study was designed to evaluate this possibility and the finding do suggest what we hypothesized... i.e. that dietary restriction provides benefits above and beyond that which are attributable to weight loss.
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