To maintain weight loss obese women require more exercise
Different statistics suggest that more than 65% adults in the U.S. are overweight and obesity has become a serious health concern in the country. “We need more effective interventions because long-term weight loss and prevention of its regain are not according to desires in adults,” the author of below mentioned study states.
According to a study, published in Archive of Internal Medicine, besides limiting calories, obese women required something more to maintain their weight loss over the period of two years as they need 55 minutes daily exercise five days in a week.
John M. Jakicic, Ph.D. of the University of Pittsburgh and collogues conducted that research in which they calculated the required amount of exercise by studying 201 obese women who were enrolled in a weight loss intervention from 1999 to 2003.
They instructed all these women to consume 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day and then these women were divided into four physical activity groups. The first group was asked to burn 1000 calories in a week, the second was asked to burn 2,000 calories per week, moderate intensity was felt by the third one and the last one experienced vital intensity. Over the two years of study, telephone calls and group meetings to discuss eating and exercise habits were also attended by these women.
After six months, the results demonstrated that there was an average 8 to 10% weight loss in women of all these four groups. However, it proved quite difficult to maintain that weight loss. After two years it was found that there was almost 5% reduction averagely in these women‘s initial body weight and the researchers didn’t find any significant difference in these four groups.
Among all these women, almost 24.6% managed to maintain a weight loss of nearly 10% of their initial body weight in two years. It was found that these women were physically more active than the women who reduced less weight and they burnt 1,835 calories per week on average basis by taking exercise 275 minutes per week.
