30 MINUTES OF DAILY EXERCISE ENOUGH TO SHED KILOS
Thirty minutes of daily exercise provides an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as does a 60-minute routine, according to a Danish research. For 13 weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen followed 60 heavy but healthy men in their efforts to get into better shape. Half of the men were set to exercise for an hour a day, wearing a heart-rate monitor and calorie counter, while the second group was to exercise for 30 minutes.
Research results showed that 30 minutes of exercise, hard enough to produce a sweat, was enough to turn the tide on an unhealthy body mass index.
On an average, the men who exercised 30 minutes a day lost 3.6 kg in three months, while those who exercised for a whole hour only lost 2.7 kg. The reduction in body mass was about four kilos for both groups, reports Mads Rosenkilde, doctoral student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences. IANS
NEW TOOL DEVELOPED TO TRACE
BROWN FAT, FIGHT OBESITY
Scientists have enlisted a pioneering new tool which uses thermal imaging to spot brown fat — the body’s good fat — to fight obesity. Brown fat plays a vital role in quickly burning away the calories and produces 300 times more heat than any other tissue in the body. It means that the more of it we have, the less likely we are to store excess energy or food as harmful fat. Michael Symonds, professor of developmental physiology at the University of Nottingham, who led the study, said, “This completely non-invasive technique could play a crucial role in our fight against obesity.”
“Potentially, we could add a thermogenic index to food labels to show whether that product would increase or decrease heat production within brown fat. In other words, whether it would speed up or slow down the amount of calories we burn,” added Symonds. Helen Budge, clinical associate professor in neonatology at Nottingham, who worked with Symonds, said, “Babies have a larger amount of brown fat which they use up to keep warm soon after birth making our study’s finding that this healthy fat can also generate heat in childhood and adolescence very exciting.” IANS
Thirty minutes of daily exercise provides an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as does a 60-minute routine, according to a Danish research. For 13 weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen followed 60 heavy but healthy men in their efforts to get into better shape. Half of the men were set to exercise for an hour a day, wearing a heart-rate monitor and calorie counter, while the second group was to exercise for 30 minutes.
Research results showed that 30 minutes of exercise, hard enough to produce a sweat, was enough to turn the tide on an unhealthy body mass index.
On an average, the men who exercised 30 minutes a day lost 3.6 kg in three months, while those who exercised for a whole hour only lost 2.7 kg. The reduction in body mass was about four kilos for both groups, reports Mads Rosenkilde, doctoral student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences. IANS
NEW TOOL DEVELOPED TO TRACE
BROWN FAT, FIGHT OBESITY
Scientists have enlisted a pioneering new tool which uses thermal imaging to spot brown fat — the body’s good fat — to fight obesity. Brown fat plays a vital role in quickly burning away the calories and produces 300 times more heat than any other tissue in the body. It means that the more of it we have, the less likely we are to store excess energy or food as harmful fat. Michael Symonds, professor of developmental physiology at the University of Nottingham, who led the study, said, “This completely non-invasive technique could play a crucial role in our fight against obesity.”
“Potentially, we could add a thermogenic index to food labels to show whether that product would increase or decrease heat production within brown fat. In other words, whether it would speed up or slow down the amount of calories we burn,” added Symonds. Helen Budge, clinical associate professor in neonatology at Nottingham, who worked with Symonds, said, “Babies have a larger amount of brown fat which they use up to keep warm soon after birth making our study’s finding that this healthy fat can also generate heat in childhood and adolescence very exciting.” IANS
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