MD Weight Loss Health Blog

A recent 20-year study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) followed 3600 people between the ages of 18 and 30. A record was kept of their activity level and they were weighed regularly. Overall, men who maintained higher activity levels gained 2.6 kg (that's 5.7 pounds) by middle age than less active men. More highly active women gained 6.1 kg (13.4 lbs) less than their less active counterparts!!! Another observation was that men and women who regularly got 150 minutes (2 and a half hours) of moderate intensity activity per week (like a brisk walk), had significantly less weight gain than those who didn't meet this goal.

At MD Weight Loss, I constantly stress the importance of regular exercise to maintain weight loss. I ask all patients to aim for 3 hours of exercise per week, which is a little more than the study noted above. And I've seen it over and over again............if you refuse to exercise, you WILL regain all of your weight. All of that hard fought weight loss will have been for naught. And this study is just more supporting evidence for the benefits of exercise.