Forever Slim: An Hour of Exercise per Day
April 5th 2010 -
Women who want to keep their slim figure without dieting for years, must drive about an hour a day sports. In a large U.S. study also succeeded only normal weight women to keep the rampant pounds alone with sports in check. To health care generally recommended 150 minutes of exercise every week are indeed capable of preventing chronic diseases such as hypertension or diabetes, may thus prevent the long term but not overweight.
The average adult lays over the years to maintain a couple of pounds. Over nutrition and physical inactivity are considered the main causes of the wide growth of the population. I-Min Lee of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues have now studied in a large study, the impact of sport and physical activity have on body weight of healthy women. The 34,079 participants in the study were on average 54 years old and held no special diet. The weight trend of women has been documented over a period of 13 years. In addition, the researchers regularly inquired after the sporting activity of the study participants.
Only 4540 women (13.3 percent) succeeded in the course of the study to increase less than 2.3 kg and thus keep their initial weight to a large extent. They held no diet, but were at least an hour each day at moderate intensity sports activities. Key to the long-term success, however, was started in what weight class the women in the study. During normal weight and lean women exists with an initial BMI (Body Mass Index) of more than 25 kg/m2 benefited from the sport, protect the training obese women with initial BMI values above 25 kg/m2 not against further weight gain.
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