Welcome back to the Diet Dr. Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Scher.

Today we're talking about exercise. Now we've already done one episode on exercise with Professor

Stu Phillips from McMaster University talking about resistance training, building muscle,

basically the importance of muscle. Today we're going to take it to the next step.

We're going to talk about interval training and aerobic training.

Because when you think about exercise, or at least when I think about it,

it's sort of a three-legged stool with the aerobic base, the interval training,

and the strength training, and muscle building.

Of course, there's also flexibility and movement, and that's important.

But from a health standpoint

where they're talking about improving your weight improving your blood sugar improving your

body composition improving your blood pressure improving your insulin resistance all these really

important concepts of healthy weight loss that's where I really see exercise playing a role

and again those three

of the strength training, the resistance training, and the aerobic training. And it's that key

of healthy weight loss because we've said it on diet, doctor, you've heard it before, you can't

outrun a bad diet. Exercise is not the primary mode of weight loss. But if you are following a good diet, if you are losing weight by other means,

exercise can really help modulate what kind of weight loss you have

because you want to have healthy weight loss.

I can't say that enough times.

What is healthy weight loss?

Healthy weight loss is losing fat mass, maintaining or building your lean mass,

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