Moderate Exercise Is Not Enough To Lose Weight – One Hour Per Day Recommended – Weekly Regimen of 275 Minutes Needed

(Best Syndication News) A new study says that a 30-minute per day exercise regimen is not enough to lose weight and keep it off. Besides a low calorie diet, researchers now say that 55 minutes per day is needed to “enhance” long-term weight loss. To a sustain weight loss of 10 percent over two years you may need to exercise 55 minutes five days a week (see the videos below).
Starvation used to be the health problem around the world, but now more adults are dieing from obesity related disease than starvation. “Among obese adults, long-term weight loss and prevention of weight regain have been less than desired,” the researchers affirm. More needs to be done, according to the report published in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The study involved 201 overweight and obese women enrolled in a weight loss program between 1999 and 2003. All of the women were told to eat between 1,200 and 1,500 calories per day. For comparison, a Whopper is 670 calories and an order of large fries is 450 calories. If you add a slice of cheese (about 100 calories) and a large Coke (255 calories) you have made your daily allotment in one meal.
Each woman was followed for two years and in the first 6 months all of them lost on average 8 to 10 percent of their initial body weight. Although most of the women were unable to “sustain” their weight loss, after two years their average weight was still 5 percent lower than their initial weight.
The participants who were able to keep the weight off (24.6 percent of them) reported more physical activity. These women burned an average of 1,835 calories per week by working out for 275 minutes per week. That works out to 55 minutes per day, 5-days per week.
Previously the recommendation was 150 minutes per week (30 minutes five days a week). “This clarifies the amount of physical activity that should be targeted for achieving and sustaining this magnitude of weight loss, but also demonstrates the difficulty of sustaining this level of physical activity,” the new report states.
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By Marsha Quinn