EXERCISE WALKING INCREASES WEIGHT LOSS AND KNOWING HOW FAR YOU WALK HELPS DIETING AND INCREASES WEIGHT LOSS STUDIES SAY

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You exercise for weight loss, you walk miles daily to lose weight. Just dieting without exercise can be a recipe for frustration. Adding an exercise regimen seems to speed the metabolism and energize your weight loss. Walking helps, especially vigorous walking. I have seen two articles in medical journals claiming that just measuring the walking distance by wearing a pedometer when you walk will increase your weight loss. Using a pedometer by itself will not be sufficient but is one technique to increase the weight loss. "Overweight or obese "couch potatoes" who start a daily walking regimen can expect to lose at least a modest amount of weight even in the absence of any special diet", new research reveals.



"The review of data from nine studies found that people who used a pedometer to track and motivate their walking achieved a loss of about a pound every 10 weeks". A pedometer is a machine you wear while you walk. It counts the steps and how much distance you have walked. Knowing how far you walk contributes to weight loss possibly by improving motivation. "Just by strapping on a step-counting pedometer, overweight or obese "couch potatoes" who start a daily walking regimen can expect to lose at least a modest amount of weight even in the absence of any special diet".

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"The main point is that pedometer-based walking programs are effective at getting people to walk more, and they do result in a modest amount of weight loss," said study lead author Dr. Caroline R. Richardson, an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School". Richardson's team did a meta analysis on 9 previous studies of exercise walking and pedometers. Meta analysis is a mathematical technique to pool together and analyze data from a number of studies. They analyzed walking studies conducted between 1995 and 2006.



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