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Posted on Feb 26th 2008 12:30PM by Chris Sparling
Getting and staying physically fit involves a two-pronged approach: Diet and Exercise. Working with synergistic effect, diet and exercise will help you shed any unwanted pounds and even add some muscle tone, to boot. The key is to make sure hat you are consistent with both, especially since there is evidence to suggest that dieting alone will not reduce harmful abdominal fat cells. And, since a large waist can sometimes be an indicator of a litany of health problems, all measures should be taken to make sure that those fat cells stay away from your midsection.
To arrive to this discovery, researchers put 45 obese and overweight women on one of three exercise regimens: Diet only, Diet plus low-intensity exercise, and Diet plus high-intensity exercise. Twenty weeks later, all of the women saw a reduction in weight and their waistline, but the exercisers also showed a decrease of about 17 percent in the size of their abdominal fat cells. The non-exercisers' overall decrease in abdominal fat cells was less than 1percent, by the way.
This further proves the importance of exercising and eating right, especially since this information suggests that just doing one of the two may not be enough. But, worry not -- the study also showed that you don't have to run marathons or hike the Appalachian Trail in order to see results. Some low-intensity walking a few days a week will work just fine.
