| People
can avoid regaining weight after diets by following a program of
low-intensity exercise, report researchers in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers at Maastricht University in the
Netherlands studied 40 obese men, age 39 on average, who were given
a protein-enriched low-calorie liquid diet for 10 weeks. The men
were randomly divided into two groups, one of which engaged in a
low-inten sity exercise program while the other did not. While dieting,
the men who did not exercise lost about 12.5 kilograms (27.5 pounds),
the same amount of fat as the men who did exercise during the diet.
However, two weeks after returning to a balanced diet, the group
who did not exercise had a lower rate of fat metabolism, which could
predispose them to weight gain. The results suggest that low-intensity
workout sessions four times a week, involving exercises such as
cycling, walk ing or jogging in 1-meter-deep (3-feet-deep) water,
help keep fat levels low. |
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