It's a building block for our health, involved in forming healthy red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body
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For those people that are so obese, that diet, exercise doesn't feel like it's having much of an impact, it feels like you're on a losing battle
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"These data are reassuring, but more studies are required to prove causation," lead study author Lucas Mavromatis, a medical student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, said in a statement
This happens because the mechanical loading on bones decreases as body weight drops, and calorie restriction can reduce the availability of nutrients needed for bone maintenance