In a study that stands head to head, to the studies conducted earlier, researchers found that if somebody wants to loose one’s body fat then stooping to dieting is not a wrong thing because dieting, is as efficient as exercise.
To reach this conclusion researcher tested 24 people, 12 who ate a calorie-restricted diet, and 12 who dieted along with exercise routine of five times a week for six months. Finally, they concluded that people of both the groups lost about 10 percent of their body weight, 24 percent of their fat mass, and 27 percent of their abdominal visceral fat, which is considered the most dangerous type of body fat. This revelation shows that there wasn’t much difference between the fat-loss, these two groups noticed.
This finding may no doubt be significant but it leaves many questions unanswered like-
1. Should dieting be preferred to exercise?
2. Has dieting no side effects?
3. What about the health losses, which come flocking with dieting?
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Via: Earth Times
