Aim for 300 Minutes of Exercise a Week to Lose Weight, Study Says

Aim for 300 Minutes of Exercise
a Week to Lose Weight, Study Says.
Normally, when a person works out,
their appetite increases in an attempt
to compensate for lost calories. .
This makes weight loss difficult
for people who are not strictly
monitoring their food intake. .
A study published in ‘Medicine & Science
in Sports & Exercise’ has found the
“inflection point” where weight loss is possible.
The study, conducted by Kyle Flack, an
assistant professor at the University of Kentucky,
involved 44 sedentary, overweight men and women. .
Half of the participants were asked to
exercise twice a week for at least 90 minutes. .
Their goal was to burn about
1,500 total calories a week.
The other half was instructed to exercise
six times a week for about 40 to 60 minutes,
or around 300 minutes a week.
Their weekly goal was to burn at
least 3,000 total calories. .
After 12 weeks, Flack found that only those
in the second group lost weight. .
He also found changes in the second group’s
levels of leptin, a hormone that reduces appetite.
Flack hypothesized that the alteration
enabled them to better regulate their
desire to eat and therefore maintain a
weight-shedding calorie deficit.