AUTHOR=Yalcinkaya Nehir , Isik Ozkan , Beyleroglu Malik , Erdogdu Dogan , Cicek Guner , Novak Dario 

TITLE=Effects of 8-week alkaline diet and aerobic exercise on body composition, aerobic performance, and lipid profiles in sedentary women

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Nutrition

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1339874

DOI=10.3389/fnut.2023.1339874

ISSN=2296-861X

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Background</title><p>Diet composition can affect systemic pH and acid–base regulation, which may in turn influence exercise performance.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Purpose</title><p>It was aimed to determine the effects of the alkaline diet and 8 weeks of aerobic exercises on body composition, aerobic performance, and blood lipid profiles in sedentary women.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Methods</title><p>Thirty-two sedentary women participated in the study voluntarily. The research was designed with a true-experimental design and the participants were divided into four different groups as the control group, aerobic exercise group, alkaline diet group, and alkaline diet + aerobic exercise group. The body compositions, aerobic exercise performances, and lipid profiles of sedentary women were measured as pre-test and post-test. In the analysis of the obtained data, One-Way ANOVA with Bonferroni <italic>post hoc</italic> test was used.</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Results</title><p>It was observed that the alkaline diet consumed with 8 weeks of aerobic exercises caused a 5.17% decrease in BMI and an increase of 42.07 and 37.62% in VO<sub>2max</sub> and aerobic test durations, respectively (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05). In addition, when lipid profiles were examined, it was determined that there was no statistically significant difference in HDL-C levels (<italic>p</italic> &gt; 0.05). Despite that, there were statistically significant differences in TG and LDL-C levels (<italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05). According to this result, it was determined that there was a decrease in TG and LDL-C levels by 37.61 and 20.24%, respectively.</p></sec><sec id="sec5"><title>Conclusion</title><p>An alkaline diet consumed with 8 weeks of aerobic exercises in sedentary women has positive effects on improving body composition, aerobic exercise performances, and TG and LDL-C levels.</p></sec>