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Article: Walk slow, burn fat.(slower walking draws on fat for fuel)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 20, 2002
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Nearly everyone is most comfortable walking at about 3 miles per hour, midway between a shuffle and a speed-walk. Many scientists believe that's because our bodies are most energy efficient at this speed. But Wayne Willis and colleagues at Arizona State University think we prefer this pace because it depletes only fat, the body's richest store of energy, and not carbohydrate.
The team had people walk on a treadmill and determined which kind of energy they used by recording how much oxygen and carbon dioxide they breathed in and out. At 3 mph, people drew almost entirely on fat. At 4 mph, total energy costs rose just ...
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