Weight Loss May Benefit Knees Of Overweight People, But Not If It Is By Exercise Alone

) presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting found that “weight loss from dieting can slow the progression of knee arthritis in overweight people.” It also found, according to lead author Dr. Alexandra Gersing, “solely exercise as a regimen in order to lose weight in overweight and obese adults may not be as beneficial to the knee joint as weight loss regimens involving diet.” The study was based on “760 overweight or obese adults who had mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis or were at risk for it.” They were assigned either to lose no weight, or to lose weight, “through either a combination of diet and exercise, diet alone, or exercise alone.” At eight years, “cartilage degeneration was much lower in the weight-loss group than in the control group,” but only for those who had “lost weight through diet and exercise, or diet alone” even though those who lost weight by exercise “lost as much weight as those who slimmed down through diet plus exercise or diet alone.” https://consumer.healthday.com/bone-and-joint-information-4/knee-problem-news-436/this-weight-loss-strategy-may-not-help-your-knees-728364.html