With Christmas behind us, our thoughts turn to New Year’s resolutions, and many of us think about how our festive eating added to our weight. A recent study suggested a strategy for taking weight off and keeping it off.
Main point: “Moving more throughout the day offers enhanced weight-loss benefits for older, severely overweight adults, even without structured exercise activities.”
More about it:
- When people moved more frequently during the day, they “lost weight and kept the pounds off more effectively than those in more structured programs.”
- People were also “more likely to remain engaged in the program than those who participated in structured aerobic exercise and weight-loss treatments.”
- Moving more is important because “Just over 42% of all adults in the United States meet the criteria for obesity, or being severely overweight, meaning they have a body mass index over 30.” The extra weight brings negative health risks.
Think about it:
- Because “many have difficulty sticking to a traditional exercise regimen in the long term,” we might think more in terms of how we live each day rather than trying to stick to a schedule.
- An outcome of the study is to “empower older adults to seek out an array of enjoyable activities that help them to move more throughout the day and to sit less.”
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