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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 s