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| 741.1 | no revelations in .0 | MILKWY::ZARLENGA | and here's another profound note | Thu May 07 1992 01:05 | 12 |
| re:.0
If you're only dieting, yes, you will lose some bone mass.
You will also lose muscle and fat, too.
If you then add in exercise, you will gain muscle mass.
And if your exercise is a load bearing exercise you will gain bone
mass.
For very heavy people, just walking is a load bearing exercise.
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| 741.2 | Increasing Bone Mass | ESCROW::ROBERTS | | Thu May 07 1992 15:05 | 16 |
| Yes, I second the info in .1 about bone mass. I used to raise horses,
and there were many studies over the years done on horses that showed
the correlation between weight-bearing exercise and increase in bone
mass.
As for the article about dieting and loss of bone mass, I'm not
surprised to hear that dieting is bad in yet another way. Exercise is
really the best way to keep the weight off. As an aside, there is
also evidence that shows that non-strenuous exercise is better for
weight loss than strenuous exercise. Strenuous exercise burns sugar;
easier exercise burns fat.
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| 741.3 | walking enough? | PCOJCT::LOCOVARE | | Thu May 07 1992 16:04 | 7 |
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I'm not terribly heavy, just trying to get rid of last of
pregnancy weight (14 1bs). Is walking weight bearing enough?
Its all I really have time for now since I'm back at work
and it is something we can all do together.
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| 741.4 | | MILKWY::ZARLENGA | and here's another profound note | Fri May 08 1992 02:05 | 10 |
| If you're 14lbs overweight, walking is not a weight bearing exercise.
You'd have to make the transition to either walking with weights
(could dangerous for your knees or ankles), or working out with
resistance or weights, or moderate-impact aerobics classes.
In the meantime, osteoporosis is much more than just losing bone
mass, so don't start worrying yet. You can lose bone mass and still
have very solid bones. Osteoporosis means the bones have become
_porous_. That's when you lose bone mass from deep within the bone.
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| 741.5 | | RANGER::PESENTI | Only messages can be dragged | Fri May 08 1992 14:42 | 4 |
| If you are 14 lbs overweight, or 114 lbs overweight, walking is still exercise.
And exercise still burns calories. And if you increase the calories burned, and
DON'T increase the calories consumed, you will (with rare exceptions) lose some
weight.
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| 741.6 | Exercise to increase bone mass | ESCROW::ROBERTS | | Mon May 11 1992 14:46 | 11 |
| re .5
Yes, walking is certainly exercise, even if you are not overweight.
But the topic under discussion here is exercise that is weight-bearing
enough to lead to incresed bone mass, not simply exercise that will
lead to weight loss or fitness.
In the study results that I've read, it appears that running will
increase the effective weight because of its concussive nature. So if
you are not enough overweight to make walking a bone thickening
exercise, then maybe you should start running instead.
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| 741.7 | | RANGER::PESENTI | Only messages can be dragged | Wed May 20 1992 14:39 | 7 |
| re .6
Sorry. In .5 I was responding to .3 where the question was "is walking weight
bearing enough to lose 14 lbs.?" What I was trying to say was that one can lose
14 lbs by walking. I guess I did not understand how her question even related
to the issue of weight bearing exercise and bone mass, other than the fact that
it contained the words "weight bearing" in it.
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