{"id":21027,"date":"2010-05-06T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T06:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=21027"},"modified":"2010-05-05T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T04:29:20","slug":"lose-10-pounds-get-sick-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/lose-10-pounds-get-sick-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose 10 Pounds, Get Sick Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/lose-10-pounds-get-sick-less\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21030\" title=\"sneeze\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sneeze-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sneeze-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/sneeze.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are many health reasons for losing weight. And even a modest <a title=\"weight loss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/the-mathematics-of-weight-loss\/\" target=\"_self\">weight loss<\/a> can do a world of good. If you need a little extra motivation to lose your first 10 pounds, how about the fact that Australian researchers think that it could boost your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Factors, such as diet and excess body fat, may alter the balance of immune system cells that help protect the body from foreign invaders, such as germs and viruses.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the study, researchers studied obese people with <a title=\"diabetes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/diabetes\/\" target=\"_self\">type 2 diabetes<\/a> or prediabetes. They were limited to a diet of 1,000 to 1,600 calories a day for 24 weeks. There were also <a title=\"weight loss surgery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/topics\/weight-loss-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">gastric bands<\/a> used after 12 weeks, which restrict how much food the stomach will hold.<\/p>\n<p>What they found was an 80 percent reduction in the number of pro-inflammatory immune cells that were produced. And when the person lost 13 pounds, the levels of pro-inflammatory cells was as low as that found in lean people.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have known for quite some time that excess body fat, and especially abdominal fat, triggers the production of immune cells that promote inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"immune boost\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/36720900\/ns\/health-diet_and_nutrition\/\" target=\"_self\">MSNBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many health reasons for losing weight. And even a modest weight loss can do a world of good. If you need a little extra motivation to lose your first 10 pounds, how about the fact that Australian researchers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/lose-10-pounds-get-sick-less\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[31,1359,74,1579],"class_list":["post-21027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-health-news","tag-type-2-diabetes","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-loss-surgery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21027"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21036,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21027\/revisions\/21036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}