Walk to Ward Off Age-Related Weight Gain
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Walking as little as half an hour a day may keep the extra pounds from adding up as you get older.
A new study suggests that the more you walk, the less likely you’ll gain weight as you age. Researchers followed nearly 5,000 men and women for 15 years and found that a half hour of walking per day reduced the usual weight gain per year by 1 pound among women who were the heaviest at the start of the study.
“Walking is of particular relevance because it is generally an affordable and accessible form of physical activity for most people,” writes researcher Penny Gordon-Larsen of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues.
“If we can increase walking participation by Americans, the evidence is strong that we will improve not only weight control but overall public health.”
The results appear in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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