Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

No need to run

It is reported in a recent issue of Chest that in a study of 133, middle-age, over weight and sedentary folks at risk for heart disease, 12 miles of walking a week at a moderate pace did just as much good as 12 miles of jogging or brisk walking. I'm taking a wild guess here, but don't you think the 12 miles is the key? That's 2 miles a day, 6 days a week, with time out to go to church on Sunday. If you're a slug or a couch potato even 15 minutes a day would be an improvement, wouldn't it?

posted by Rosabelle 9:09 AM  

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