Diet, exercise or both? What obese older adults need to do to reduce cardiometabolic risk

Diet, exercise or both? What obese older adults need to do to reduce cardiometabolic risk: Obese older adults can reduce their chance of developing the metabolic syndrome by losing weight through dieting alone, but adding exercise to a weight loss program has even more benefit, a new study finds. The results show that a combination of diet-induced weight loss and frequent exercise almost doubled the improvement in insulin sensitivity compared with dieting alone.