When a woman with type 2 diabetes wants to lose her belly, exercise is her best friend.
Even if she diet perfectly, eating all the right foods in ideal amounts, her waist can not move unless she works. Exercise is required to lose excess fat in the abdomen, a new study says.
Why is it so important to lose abdominal fat? Researchers have shown that having a little extra fat in the wrong places can increase the chances of developing diseases. Deep fat in the abdomen, called visceral fat, represents a greater risk to health than fat in other parts of the body, such as hips.
Exercise has already been shown to help obese people without diabetes to lose visceral fat. Now the verdict is in diabetic women with overweight: move to get rid of this dangerous fat.
Fat metabolism is changed in women with type 2 diabetes, write the researchers. That's why they concentrated their study on the effects of exercise in obese women with type 2.
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Women were in a major change when they enrolled in the study of 14 weeks. None had dieted or exercised regularly in a year.
Women were divided into three groups. Some women have received a low-calorie diet in healthy monoinsaturated fats such as olive oil.
Diet women also received nutritional consultation, a week of menu ideas and a weekly meeting for motivation and support. / p>
Another group was given a supervised aerobic exercise program that consists of walking 50 minutes three times a week, occasionally doing other activities for the variety. The third group followed both programs.
Before and after the study women have magnetic resonance scans to see visceral fat.
Diet alone did not reduce visceral fat. Just exercise alone or exercise more diet reduced visceral fat.
Researchers say that their study demonstrates the importance of exercise in reducing visceral fat in the treatment of women with type diabetes 2.
The study appears in the March edition of the Endocrinology magazine clinic
