Can dropping weight save your knees?
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay | 0 comments | 0 Shares | May 14, 2017
Research found that patients with 5 percent weight loss had lower rates of cartilage degeneration than patients whose weight remained stable. Among patients who lost 10 percent of their body weight, cartilage degeneration slowed even more. (For Spectrum Health Beat)
Knocking off some extra pounds might take a harmful load off your knees, researchers report.
Obese and overweight people who lost 5 percent or more of their weight over four years saw less degeneration of their knee cartilage compared with people whose weight stayed stable.
http://healthbeat.spectrumhealth.org/can-dropping-weight-save-your-knees/
