Many people try dieting as a New Year\u2019s resolution but then\ngo back to their old habits in a matter of days, weeks or month. Some end up\ntrying again later in the year, which makes researchers wonder about the\neffects of yo-yo dieting on heart health. A new study has found that although\ntrying and failing at healthy eating does impact heart health, it\u2019s worth\ntrying again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers at Purdue University looked at the results of\ntwo studies on dieting and cardiometabolic markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants of one study ate the Mediterranean diet\nfocusing on increasing health fats and eating plenty of fruits, vegetables and\nwhole grains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants of the other study followed the DASH (Dietary\nApproaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. This diet focused on controlling how\nmuch sodium they consumed, while eating plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole\ngrains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people in both studies followed their diet for five or\nsix weeks, then had their cardiovascular risk measured. Then they went back to\ntheir regular eating patterns for four weeks, followed by another\ncardiovascular assessment. Finally, the restarted their original diet for five\nto six weeks, followed by a final checkup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As was expected, when people were on their diet, their\ncardiovascular markers improved, and when they weren\u2019t, their biomarkers were\nless favorable. But the good news is, once people started their healthy diets\nagain, their metabolic markers improved again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese findings should encourage people to try again if they\nfail at their first attempt to adopt a healthy eating pattern,\u201d says Purdue\u2019s\nProfessor Wayne Campbell. \u201cIt seems that your body isn\u2019t going to become\nresistant to the health-promoting effects of this diet pattern just because you\ntried it and weren\u2019t successful the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The results of the study were published in the journal Nutrients.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can yo-yo dieting hurt your heart’s health? Find out what new research says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703],"tags":[783,771,827,784],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-loss","tag-dieting","tag-food","tag-heart-health","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}