The Diet-Exercise Synergy
Diet and exercise don’t just operate independently-they can actually work together to lower your cholesterol.
A positive interaction between diet and excercise in lowering “bad” LDL cholesterol emerged in a past years, report in the New England.
The researchers, from Stanford University School of Medicine, found that during a one- year period, men and women who followed the more restrictive, low- fat NCEP step II diet and also engaged in areobic excercise were able to lower their LDL levels by 15 to 20 points on average. In contrast, those who didn’t excercise failed to lower their LDL levels to this extent. The researchers concluded that”s quite important to include aerobic excercise with a diet for maximum reduction of “bad” LDL cholesterol.
But the benefits of the diet- excercise combinations don’t stop here. Many studies have shown that these two strategies, operating both alone and together, can produce still another benefit for your blood lipids: a reduction in obesity and percentage of body fat.