Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 BSc student of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
2 Professor of Exercise Physiology, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Teheran, Iran.
Abstract
Objective: Obesity is a complex disease that causes oxidative stress by disrupting fat metabolism. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ten weeks of swimming exercises with black seed supplementation on the plasma lipid profile of inactive obese women.
Methodology: The swimming training group performed swimming exercises for 10 weeks and three sessions a week with an intensity of 60% of the maximum heart rate and the duration of each session was 75 minutes; the black seed-training group also performed both the training and supplement protocols. At the end of the period, blood and anthropometric variables were measured. Blood samples were taken 50 hours before and after two weeks of training in order to check the indicators of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol. Total (TC) was obtained. Covariance analysis and paired t-test at a significance level of 0.05 were used for data analysis.
Findings: Investigations showed that there is no significant difference between the groups in the values of HDL-C, LDL-C, TG and TC (P>0.05). However, in the intra-group comparison, hockey results have a significant difference in HDL-C, LDL-C, TG and TC in the training and training-supplement and black seed groups.
Conclusion: It seems that taking two weeks of swimming exercises along with black seed supplement improves some of the fat profile indicators and can probably be effective in improving the complications caused by obesity.
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