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Calorie Restricted Diet Without Exercise May Lead to Bone Loss

by Healthy_Woman on Dec 19, 2011

People who lose weight through cutting calories alone may be losing bone density, and increasing their risk of osteoporosis while those who combine diet and exercis does not seem to produce the same effect, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Losing weight without proper exercise and a healthy diet can have disastrous effects on your body. Lack of exercise can result in decreased bone density, which increases the risk for osteoporosis (weakening of the bones) and hip fractures in older men and women.

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Scientists, led by Dennis T. Villareal, M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and colleagues examined the effects of weight loss on bone loss in 48 adults (30 women and 18 men, with an average age of 57). Researchers divided the participants into three groups:

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