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Article: Investigators at University of Alabama target weight loss.(Clinical report)
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- Obesity & Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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In this recent article published in the journal Obesity, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To determine what effect diet-induced similar to 12 kg weight loss in combination with exercise training has on body composition and resting energy expenditure (REE) in premenopausal African-American (AA) and European-American (EA) women. This study was a longitudinal, randomized weight loss clinical intervention, with either aerobic (AT), resistance (RT), or no exercise training (NT)."
"Forty-eight AA and forty-six EA premenopausal overweight (BMI between 27 and 30) women underwent weight loss to a BMI
The researchers concluded: "However, following ...