ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)1991
Diet and body composition. Effect of very low calorie diets and exercise.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 1991. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- A Narrative Review of Weight Management Strategies: From Lifestyle Interventions to Emerging Pharmacotherapies.Journal of obesity · 2026Review
- Dietary Patterns, Gut Microbiota and Sports Performance in Athletes: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Quantitative analysis of the caloric restriction versus isocaloric diets models based on macronutrients composition: impacts on body weight regulation, anthropometric, and bioimpedance parameters in women with obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Fat-Free Mass and Skeletal Muscle Mass Gain Are Associated with Diabetes Remission after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Males but Not in Females.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Myostatin dysfunction does not protect from fasting-induced loss of muscle mass in mice.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2019Article
- International society of sports nutrition position stand: diets and body composition.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2017Review
- Changes of body composition in patients with BMI 23-50 after tailored one anastomosis gastric bypass (BAGUA): influence of diabetes and metabolic syndrome.Obesity surgery · 2014Article
- The importance of fat free mass maintenance in weight loss programmes.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 1996Review
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Abstract
Obesity is the presence of excess body fat and is associated with a variety of medical conditions which increase morbidity and mortality. Millions of individuals participate in weight-reduction programmes which include reduced calorie diets and may also include exercise. Very low calorie diets (VLCD) of 400 to 800 kcal/day appear attractive as they generally show an increase in weight loss from 0.2 to 0.5 kg/week found with the traditional diet to 1.5 to 2.0 kg/week. Early use of very low calorie diets with poor quality protein and loose medical supervision resulted in about 60 deaths, many of which were attributed to loss of lean body mass and in particular, cardiac muscle atrophy. Although current very low calorie diets are presumed safe, concern regarding preservation of lean body mass (LBM) remains. Investigators have used exercise to slow the depletion of lean body mass during very low calorie diets; however, the results are not conclusive. A host of different methodologies and questionable documentation and design of exercise protocols precludes a definitive statement for the benefits of exercise during very low calorie diets for the purpose of LBM retention.
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