Studies Show Exercise Boon for Obesity, Diabetes

According to a study, whilst walking a little more each day can help people control their Type 2 diabetes, obese people trying to keep weight off may need to exercise harder than they had thought.

Simply walking 45 minutes more each day helped people with diabetes burn about 20 percent more fat,thereby increasing the ability of the muscles to store sugar and help control diabetes

However, the current exercise guidelines which call for people to get a 150 minutes / 2.5 hours workout each week may not be enough to help the obese keep weight off.

In fact, it has been discovered that women assigned to exercise for about an extra hour each day did not gain the weight back. Therefore, people who want to lose weight and keep it off need to get at least 4 1/2 hours of exercise a week


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/hl_nm/exercise_weight_dc;_ylt=AveFtwGsNhfMw5N6ncxDkaWISbYF