Slight Weight Gain May Not Be Linked To Worse Health
Does A Slight Weight Gain Link To Worse Health?
According to a post by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich of jpost.com A Slight weight gain may not be linked to worse health.
She wrote a detailed article that reveals the results of a 2 year dietary research, you might be stunned to hear the results below.
“The study was conducted on 322 participants during the two-year Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) performed by BGU and the Nuclear Research Center in the Negev. The participants were randomized into three different, but healthy interventions – low-fat, Mediterranean or low-carbohydrate diets. Strict adherence to the diets was maintained throughout the two-year period.
“This study tells us that we may have all been too tunnel-viewed on weight when it comes to healthy dieting. Although maintaining ideal body weight is linked to better health, when it comes to adopting healthier dietary habits in mild to moderately obese people, there are benefits beyond weight loss, such as decreasing inflammatory tone and elevating ‘good cholesterol’ (HDL),” Faculty of Health Sciences Prof. Assaf Rudich said.
“This is similar to what we have been learning in diabetes, in which we now understand not to deal just with glucose levels, but also relate to blood lipids, blood pressure, coagulation and so on,” he said.
In obesity, the researchers wrote, health benefits of persistently switching to healthier dieting extend beyond the single outcome of weight loss.
“In fact, important improvements that likely signify decreased risk for cardiovascular disease occur even despite weight regain, as long as dieting persists,” Rudich said.
The researchers identified two distinct patterns: “Pattern-A” includes biomarkers (insulin, triglycerides, leptin, chemerin, monocyte-chemotacticprotein- 1(MCP-1) and retinol-binding-protein- 4(RBP4)) whose dynamics tightly corresponded to changes in body weight; they significantly improved during the first six months of the “rapid weight-loss phase,” but then, unfortunately, significantly changed their trend to the opposite direction once participants started to regain weight (the “weight maintenance/regain phase,” during the seventh through 24th months).
On the other hand, the researchers identified a totally different pattern of biomarkers (“Pattern B,” which includes high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin, HDL-cholesterol, high-sensitive Creactive protein (hsCRP), fetuin-A, progranulin, and vaspin). This displayed a continued, cumulative improvement throughout the intervention, despite the partial weight regain observed during months seven to 24 of continued dieting.
These patterns were similar, although of different magnitude, across the low-carb, Mediterranean and low-fat diets.”
So there you have it guys and girls, A Slight weight gain may not be linked to worse health so don’t feel too bad if you gain a little weight during the holidays.
Remember to share this post with your friends and family so that they can indulge too.
Toni Falcone