| A new study has revealed that older people who | | | | exercise shorten a person`s life span. Many people |
| go for dieting without exercise lose huge amount | | | | go on for dieting and lose weight and after |
| of muscle. Exercise combined with diet does not | | | | sometime regain back their lost weight and again |
| lose as much muscle as much without exercise. | | | | go back to dieting. Eventually these people |
| Loss of muscle slows down the rate of | | | | become fatter than they previously were at the |
| metabolism due to the fact - the larger the | | | | same weight due to loss of so much muscle |
| muscle the more the calories are burnt even | | | | mass. Therefore at the same weight now they |
| during rest. | | | | have fuller fat cells. Fuller fat cells produce immune |
| During a study elderly people were placed in to | | | | stimulant known as 'cytokines' that turn on a |
| three groups. | | | | person`s immunity continuously thereby causing |
| 1. Diet only | | | | inflammation which in turn elevates the risk of |
| 2. Exercise only | | | | heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer and other |
| 3. Diet and exercise | | | | harmful disease. |
| Those who were put on diet and exercise lost | | | | Therefore from this we should learn that just |
| more fat and less muscle than those who were | | | | dieting without exercise is not something which is |
| only on dieting. | | | | good for healthy weight loss. Even light exercise |
| Treadmill was taken as an exercise which does | | | | combined with dieting can prevent you from falling |
| not require a vigorous effort. | | | | prey to many harmful diseases. |
| This explains why losing weight repeatedly without | | | | |