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Walking 10,000 steps a day may not be enough: lacks intensity.(Clinical Rounds)

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| December 01, 2003 | Splete, Heidi | COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

FT. LAUDERDALE, FLA. -- The popular 10,000 steps per day walking program may not go far enough.

Dr. Herbert Marx reached that conclusion after studying a group of 25 overweight and obese men and women who increased their activity to about 10,000 steps per day during a 12-week intervention.

On average, the subjects did not achieve reductions in weight, percent body fat, or estimated insulin resistance, and they did not have reductions in blood levels of insulin, glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, leptin, adiponectin, resistin, or C-reactive protein, Dr. Marx said in a poster presented at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.

Dr. Marx and his colleagues at the Bassert Research Institute, Cooperstown, N.Y., enrolled 30 sedentary, overweight adults (20 women, 10 men) aged 30-65 years with body mass ...

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