{"id":100732,"date":"2020-01-12T06:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nutrition-expert-finds-muscle-mass-and-diet-play-crucial-role-in-fighting-cancer"},"modified":"2020-01-12T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T22:46:06","slug":"nutrition-expert-finds-muscle-mass-and-diet-play-crucial-role-in-fighting-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/nutrition-expert-finds-muscle-mass-and-diet-play-crucial-role-in-fighting-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition expert finds muscle mass and diet play crucial role in fighting cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nutrition-expert-finds-muscle-mass-and-diet-play-crucial-role-in-fighting-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step off of that bathroom scale. That number won\u2019t tell you how healthy you actually are, according to a University of Alberta researcher.<\/p>\n<p>Nutrition expert Carla Prado has written extensively about the dangers of low <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle+mass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle mass<\/a> across a wide range of body types. According to her recent review of nearly 150 studies published over a single year, patients with low <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle<\/a> mass experience more complications, longer hospital stays and lower survival rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuscle is very important for movement and balance, for posture, strength and power, but it\u2019s also a reservoir of amino acids,\u201d said Prado. \u201cThe more you lose, the greater the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step off of that bathroom scale. That number won\u2019t tell you how healthy you actually are, according to a University of Alberta researcher. Nutrition expert Carla Prado has written extensively about the dangers of low muscle mass across a wide range of body types. According to her recent review of nearly 150 studies published over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100747,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100732\/revisions\/100747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}