{"id":2601,"date":"2023-09-07T01:13:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2023-09-07T01:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:13:53","slug":"losing-weight-on-a-diet-or-ozempic-heres-why-you-still-need-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"Losing weight on a diet or Ozempic? Here\u2019s why you still need exercise."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s long been known that exercise doesn\u2019t help most people lose weight. So why should anyone trying to shed pounds still keep exercising?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New research has the answer. A study published in the journal\u00a0Nature Metabolism\u00a0found that people who combine exercise with dieting can double the metabolic health benefits of their weight loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study found that men and women with obesity and prediabetes who worked out while dieting improved their insulin sensitivity twice as much as people who only dieted, even though everyone lost comparable amounts of weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese results demonstrate that regular exercise during a diet-induced weight loss program has profound additional metabolic benefits\u201d compared with dieting by itself, the study\u2019s authors wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/09\/06\/exercise-weight-loss-diet-ozempic\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s long been known that exercise doesn\u2019t help most people lose weight. So why should anyone trying to shed pounds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}