Aerobic exercise weight loss

Sammendrag

The study was designed to compare the effects of weight loss induced by a low-carbohydrate-high-fat diet or a normal diet, with and without exercise, on glucose tolerance measured as area under the curve (AUC), and android (A) and gynoid (G) fat distribution.

The study was registered at ; NCT In total, 57 women classified as overweight or obese (age 40 ± years, body mass index ± kg/m2) were randomly assigned and completed a week intervention using a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet or a normal diet, with or without aerobic interval exercise.

An equal deficit of kcal/day was prescribed, either restricting the diet only, or moderately restricting diet and including three min high-intensity bicycle sessions per week. There were thus four groups: normal diet (NORM); low-carbohydrate-high-fat diet (LCHF); normal diet with exercise (NORM-EX); and low-carbohydrate-high-fat diet with exercise (L