by Michael O'Neill | Oct 20, 2012 | exercise
Seems like our presumption that a calorie-reduction diet and an exercise regimen is the cure for all that ails us hit another snag recently. From the New York Times: A large federal study of whether diet and weight loss can prevent heart attacks and strokes in...
by Michael O'Neill | Sep 20, 2012 | exercise, research
Some additional research on the exercise front, this time out of the University of Copenhagen. In the paper, “Body fat loss and compensatory mechanisms in response to different doses of aerobic exercise–a randomized controlled trial in overweight sedentary...
by Michael O'Neill | Aug 1, 2012 | exercise, research
Gretchen Reynolds has a nice piece today on the diet vs. exercise schism that many of us come to terms with on our weight loss journeys. Citing two new pieces of research (one of which has already been covered here), she notes how research continues to suggest that...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 27, 2012 | exercise, research, Uncategorized
Research Changes in Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins in Overweight Men during Weight Loss through Dieting as Compared with Exercise – New England Journal of Medicine As compared with controls (n = 42), dieters (n = 42) had significant loss of total body weight...
