Skip to main content

Bicycling, brisk walking help women control weight

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Bicycling and brisk walking help pre-menopausal women control weight, especially those who are overweight and obese, according to a new study.
Additionally, the research found that slower walking does not offer the same benefits as brisk walking.
Anne C. Lusk, of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues, studied 18,414 women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study II, which is an ongoing study of more than 116,600 U.S. female nurses who were age 25 to 42 when the study began in 1989.
The current evaluation included women who were premenopausal through 2005, focusing on weight change in participants between 1989 and 2005.
The 1989 baseline characteristics of the study found that 50 percent of the women spent time slow walking, 39 percent reported spending time walking briskly and 48 percent reported they spent time riding a bicycle. In 2005, participants on average reported spending more time walking briskly, some time walking slowly and the least amount of time bicycling.
Additionally, the average time spent sitting at home was five times as much as time spent in total activity.
According to the results of the study, women who did not bicycle in 1989 but increased their bicycling by 2005 were less likely to have gained weight, even when riding for five minutes a day.
Even less weight gain was seen with greater duration of bicycling. Comparatively, women who initially bicycled for more than 15 minutes day in 1989 but decreased time by 2005 gained more weight.
Additionally, normal-weight women who bicycled more than four hours a week in 2005 had lower odds of gaining more than 5 percent of their baseline body weight, as reported in 1989, compared with those who reported no bicycling.
The authors also found that, "the benefits of brisk walking, bicycling and other activities were significantly stronger among overweight and obese women compared with lean women, whereas slow walking continued to show no benefit even among overweight and obese women."
"Unlike discretionary gym time, bicycling could replace time spent in a car for necessary travel of some distance to work, shops or school as activities of daily living. Bicycling could then be an unconscious form of exercise because the trip's destination, and not the exercise, could be the goal," the authors said.
The study has been published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. (ANI)

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What signs and symptoms can occur if thyroid function is affected?

Thyroid gland: A gland that makes and stores hormones that help regulate the heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and the rate at which food is converted into energy. Thyroid hormones are essential for the function of every cell in the body. They help regulate growth and the rate of chemical reactions (metabolism) in the body. Thyroid hormones also help children grow and develop. The thyroid gland is located in the lower part of the neck, below the Adam's apple, wrapped around the trachea (windpipe). It has the shape of a butterfly: two wings (lobes) attached to one another by a middle part. The thyroid uses iodine, a mineral found in some foods and in iodized salt, to make its hormones. The two most important thyroid hormones are thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which is produced by the pituitary gland, acts to stimulate hormone production by the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland also makes the hormone calcitonin, which is
61 comments
Read more

Common diseases linked to vitamin D deficiency

Sunlight is that the body's main supplier of Vitamin D that is critical for sturdy bones and teeth. Vitamin D is in virtually each tissue, therefore, it's vital for the health of the entire body. However, five hundredths of individuals over fifty have low levels of Vitamin D. Studies have shown that an absence of it will result in polygenic disorder, depression, cardiopathy, hip fractures, cramp, and disseminated multiple sclerosis. If we do not get enough Vitamin D our cells will multiply too quick and grow to become malignant tumors increasing a risk of breast, colon, prostate, ovary, gullet and humor cancers. Lack of Vitamin D may also interfere with endocrine secretion therefore it might have an effect on polygenic disorder sufferers it absolutely was found in 'Archives of General Psychiatry' that deficiencies result in depression as a result of it affect the small endocrine glands behind the thyroid and that they become hyperactive manufacturing to abundant o
35 comments
Read more

Thyroid - Hypothyroid - Meaning - Causes - Symptoms - Treatment

What is Hypothyroid? Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Since the main purpose of thyroid hormone is to "run the body's metabolism," it is understandable that people with this condition will have symptoms associated with a slow metabolism. Causes About three percent of the general population is hypothyroidic. Factors such as iodine deficiency or exposure to Iodine can increase that risk. There are a number of causes for hypothyroidism. Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of hypothyroidism worldwide. In iodine-replete individuals hypothyroidism is generally caused by Hashimoto's thyroiditis, or otherwise as a result of either an absent thyroid gland or a deficiency in stimulating hormones from the hypothalamus or pituitary.
70 comments
Read more