Money cannot buy everything. If you think that money can bring you permanent results or changes, then you may be going wrong somewhere. Money can only open the gate to a specific goal and you need to take the path and complete a long journey. Funding , opting and undergoing a bariatric surgery may only begin your weight loss process and then it's up to you to maintain the same. And as you know, exercise forms an integral part of the weight loss and maintenance process. But is it safe for bariatric surgery patients to carry out heavy exercises? Well, researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center may have the answer.
Researchers have suggested that it is a safe option for the bariatric surgery patients to undergo heavy exercises after the surgery so as to help themselves maintain the weight loss process. Researchers claimed that before this study, people were not sure whether morbidly obese bariatric surgery patients could carry out physical exercises or not.
Researchers considered 33 adults as the study subjects and 21 of them were allotted to the exercise program on a random basis while the remaining 12 were assigned to the control group. Members of the exercise group performed workouts for five days a week and they experienced an increase in the number of calories burned over the weeks (from 500 to 2000 calories in the final week).
The study subjects received dietary guidance and were advised to limit their dietary intake to a maximum of 1500 calories a day. Dr. Garg mentioned that the participants in the exercise group increased their steps from 4,500 to 10,000 on a daily basis. Researchers are now interested to carry out a long-term clinical trial to explore the paybacks of exercises as a mechanism to avoid kilo additions.
