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Exercise No Panacea for Overweight Children but May Kick Start Metabolism 6-30-08
Overweight and obese children who dedicate at least an hour a day to
exercising may improve their metabolic health, but they won't shed fat, found
researchers here.
A longitudinal study of 113 boys and 99 girls found that only 11% of girls and
just 42% of boys met guideline requirements for daily exercise, and those who
did were not rewarded with a significant change in body mass index,
investigators reported in online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Boys and girls who regularly exercised had a small, but significant, improvement
in composite metabolic score (P<0.01) and that improvement was more pronounced
among the most active children compared with less active children (P<0.001),
wrote Brad S. Metcalf, B.Sc., of Derriford Hospital, and colleagues.
Current guidelines in the United States and England recommend that children
exercise at least once a day for 60 minutes or more at an intensity of at least
three metabolic equivalents of thermogenesis (METs) or more.
Although girls were less likely to exercise than boys, those who did reaped the
same benefits as boys.
The improvement in metabolic health was evident when exercise intensity exceeded
three METs, which suggests that "girls in particular should be encouraged to do
more, or the recommendations [should be] adjusted for girls," they wrote.
The children were participants a non-intervention prospective cohort study of
307 healthy children (170 boys) who were recruited at age five and followed
annually through age eight. Most of the children were white (98%).
The 212 children included in this analysis had physical activity, changes in
BMI, fatness (skin-fold and waist circumference) and metabolic status (insulin
resistance, triglycerides, cholesterol/HDL ratio, and blood pressure) measured
at age five, six, seven, and eight.
At baseline the mean BMI for boys was 16.3 and for girls it was 16.2. The mean
waist circumference was 51.5 cm (20.27 inches).
The authors cautioned that BMI, which is a measure of both fat and lean mass,
"may be an inappropriate outcome measure for assessing changes in physical
activity as any decrease in fat mass may have been off-set by an increase in
lean mass."
But they added that both skin-fold and waist circumference measures found no
decrease in fat mass.
Comment:
Just proves what I have always been saying. Exercise will not cause weight loss! Proper eating and health will naturally get you to your proper weight!