Obesity and Diabetes
Research findings from H.M. Blanck et al update understanding of obesity and diabetes
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 27th, 2007
In this recent report published in the journal Obesity, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To assess the relationship among recreational physical activity (PA), non-occupational sedentary behavior, and 7-year weight gain among postmenopausal USA. women 40 to 69 years old. Research Methods and Procedures: In 1992 and 1999, 18,583 healthy female participants from the Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort completed questionnaires on anthropometric characteristics and lifestyle factors."
"The associations between recreational PA [in metabolic equivalent (MET) hours per week] and non-occupational sedentary behavior (in hours per day) at baseline...
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