Getting rid of excess fats may not be all that difficult, or at least the following article suggests so.
A groundbreaking study claims that lifestyle interventions, including physical activity and structured weight loss programs, can result in extreme weight loss for overweight, obese and severely obese adults.
With obesity spreading like a forest fire especially among African American women, the findings seem to be beneficial.
The one-year intensive lifestyle intervention study of diet and physical activity was triggered on a randomized group of 130 severely obese adult individuals without diabetes. Participants were divided in two groups to examine weight loss for a period of one year. Triggered from February 2007 the follow-up continued through April 2010.
Experts add, “In conclusion, intensive lifestyle interventions using a behavior-based approach can result in clinically significant and meaningful weight loss and improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors in severely obese persons.
It is also clear that physical activity should be incorporated early in any dietary restriction approach to induce weight loss and to reduce hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) and abdominal fat.
Our data make a strong case that serious consideration should be given by health care systems to incorporating more intensive lifestyle interventions similar to those used in our study. Additional studies are clearly needed to determine long-term efficacy and cost-effectiveness of such approaches.”
