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Wake Forest University, U.S.

Abdominal adiposity is reduced by addition of aerobic exercise to weight loss diet

Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, September 27th, 2006

Abdominal adiposity is reduced by the addition of aerobic exercise to a weight loss diet.

Investigators in the United States conducted a study "to determine if hypocaloric diet, diet plus low-intensity exercise, and diet plus high-intensity exercise differentially influence subcutaneous abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size in obese individuals."

This was a "longitudinal intervention study of hypocaloric diet, diet plus low-intensity exercise, and diet plus high-intensity exercise (calorie deficit 2800 kcal/week, 20 weeks)." The study cohort consisted of "forty-five obese, middle-aged women (BMI 33.0±0.6 kg/m2, age 58±1...

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