{"id":215987,"date":"2025-06-16T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/you-dont-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-healthier-says-harvard-study"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:03:15","slug":"you-dont-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-healthier-says-harvard-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/you-dont-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-healthier-says-harvard-study","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Need To Lose Weight To Get Healthier, Says Harvard Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-dont-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-healthier-says-harvard-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ben Gurion University in Israel reveals that nearly one-third of people who stuck to a healthy diet didn\u2019t lose any weight, but still saw impressive health improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Even without shedding pounds, participants experienced key benefits to their cardiometabolic health. These included higher levels of HDL cholesterol (often called the \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol), reduced levels of leptin (a hormone that drives hunger), and less visceral fat, which is the deep belly fat that can surround vital organs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been conditioned to equate weight loss with health, and weight loss-resistant individuals are often labeled as failures,\u201d said lead author Anat Yaskolka Meir, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School. \u201cOur findings reframe how we define clinical success. People who do not lose weight can improve their metabolism and reduce their long-term risk for disease. That\u2019s a message of hope, not failure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ben Gurion University in Israel reveals that nearly one-third of people who stuck to a healthy diet didn\u2019t lose any weight, but still saw impressive health improvements. Even without shedding pounds, participants experienced key benefits to their cardiometabolic health. These included higher levels of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215987","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}