Effects of Exercise Amount and Intensity on Abdominal Obesity and Glucose Tolerance in Obese Adults

Abstract

Fixed amounts of exercise independent of exercise intensity resulted in similar reductions in abdominal obesity. Reduction in 2-hour glucose level was restricted to high-intensity exercise.

Reduced Physical Activity Patterns In Patients With Thalassemia Compared To Healthy Controls

“…In nonThal populations, regular physical activity has been shown to decrease depression and improve mood 7 , school performance 8,9,10 , glucose tolerance 11,12,13 , weight maintenance 14 , body composition 15 and bone health 16,17,18 .…”

Physical activity and cardiovascular prevention: Is healthy urban living a possible reality or utopia?

“…The pedometer is commonly used in everyday life, even with apps for smartphones, and it is possible to experience that monitoring one's daily physical activity induces a spontaneous increase of physical activity. Studies that compared amounts and intensity of exercise in different combinations in previously inactive men concluded that the results are similar in terms of reducing body weight [36], ameliorating insulin sensitivity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and skeletal muscle mitochondrial content [37]. In particular, brief (10 min) sessions of relatively intense exercise induced the same effects as more prolonged (30 min) sessions of moderate-intensity continuous training.…”

Exercise Dose Effects on Insulin Resistance Indicators in Postmenopausal Women: A Randomized Trial

“…Adherence was reported as about 2,000 kcal/week and about 3,800 kcal/week, respectively [13]. Project FINE also included glucose tolerance tests, as did two other RCTs [11,13,19]. With these tests, dose effects were observed in FINE [13] and in a four-armed, 24-week trial of men and women by Ross et al [11] in which the highest dose group, averaging 168 min/week aerobic exercise (40.0 min/session × 4.2 days/week) at 75% VO 2max experienced the greatest reduction in 2-h glucose.…”

“…2016;6(2): [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] effects would inform cancer prevention guidelines. Such trials have been conducted and measured insulin resistance indicators [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]; however, they were limited for informing postmenopausal breast cancer prevention because they were small [12][13][14], tested lower-intensity exercise [14,15,19] or shorter durations of exercise that may be suboptimal for cancer prevention [15,16], or they did not focus on postmenopausal women [11,13,17].…”