Every additional kilometer of walking per day—0.6 miles—reduces the risk of obesity by 4.8 percent according to a new study.

The direct costs of lack of physical activity, defined conservatively as absence of leisure-time physical activity, are approximately $24 billion or 2.4% of the U.S. health care expenditures according to a recent paper (Colditz, 1999).

HIGH-INTENSITY EXERCISE INCREASES FAT INTAKE more than low intensity exercise according to a recent study.

HIGH-INTENSITY EXERCISE reduces body fat in women better than low-intensity exercise according a recent study.

“Women who engaged in 5 or more hours per week of vigorous physical activity gained approximately [1.1 pounds] less than their inactive peers,” revealed a 2001 study.

Moderate exercise without calorie restriction reduces bodyfat in obese women but does not cause weight loss according to a new study from researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Women who were assigned to either a diet group or an exercise plus diet group lost an average of 6.5 percent of their body weight in a little over three months.

Moderate-intensity exercise causes men to lose bodyweight and bodyfat, and helps women prevent weight gain according to a study from the University of Kansas.

PEOPLE IN A WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAM got better results if they wore a beeper-sized monitor that showed how much exercise they were getting. Those who wore an activity monitor that immediately told them how they were doing lost an average of 24.2 pounds compared to 14.4 pounds for those without a monitor.

Women require a minimum of 35 minutes of vigorous exercise or 80 minutes of moderate exercise daily to minimize weight regain according to a recent study.

Becoming physically inactive when transitioning from adolescence to adulthood increases the likelihood of becoming obese in both men and women by about 50 percent according to a study from Finland.

MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN who stop smoking gain an average of 5.3 lbs. According to a study from Harvard, moderate exercise can reduce this gain to 4 lbs and more intense exercise further reduces it to a weight gain of 2.9 lbs.

Doctors can help patients lose more weight by recommending more exercise according to a recent study from researchers at the University of Minnesota.

Moderante exercise has no effect on food intake according to a study from the University of Kansas.

Reducing your level of physical acitivity does not cause a corresponding reduction in appetite or food intake. This leads to weight gain, “most of which is stored as fat” according to a new study.

OBESE WOMEN LOSE AS MUCH WEIGHT with diet alone as they do with diet plus exercise according to a recent study.

Women who lift weights decrease their fat intake, and the stronger they got the less fat they ate according to a recent study.

Female twins who reported engaging in vigorous exercise had 12.3 pounds less body fat on average than their non-vigorously-exercising twin, however, only 1 pound less belly fat.

“A program of diet plus lifestyle activity may offer similar health benefits and be a suitable alternative to diet plus structured aerobic activity for obese women,” concludes a recent study the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

A daily walking program without dietary restriction causes moderate weight loss and fat loss according to a recent study.

“The health benefits of normal weights appear to be limited to men who have moderate or high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness,” concluded researchers from the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas, Texas and from the University of Houston.

Diet or diet-plus-exercise causes significant weight loss and fat loss in obese women, however moderate aerobic exercise alone does not.

DIET PLUS EXERCISE DOES NOT ENHANCE weight loss in women over dieting alone according to a 3-month study of thirty-one overweight women with an average age of 35 years.

Dr. Jay Piatek explains how he uses phentermine and 5-HTP plus exercise and some unique motivational techniques to help both adults and children achieve long-term weight loss.

Women who exercised at least 200 minutes per week lost 13.6 percent of their body weight according to a study from researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.

Brisk walking an hour a day reduces the risk of obesity by 24 percent and diabetes by 34 percent according to a study from researchers at Harvard University in Boston, Mass.