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Archive for July 21st, 2010

A new study that appears in Cardiology Clinic examines the average level of physical form of the obese morbid (body mass index between 40.0 and 49.9).

The results show that the sedentary population to prove that during more than 99 percent of the day, on average, walked less than 2500 steps per day, which is far below the guidelines of the healthy life that includes some 10,000 steps per day.

The results provide important linkages between the obesity, the poor physical fitness and cardiovascular diseases.

The study used a sensor of precision in the agency continuously to the extent of physical activity, caloric expenditure and the movement minute by minute during a period of 72 hours within their domestic environments.

After the collection of data, structured the role cardio-respiratory, was carried out the aptitude test in each field.

The majority of the participants obese morbid in the study were markedly sedentary and on average slept 23 hours and 51.6 minutes per day, without daily activity sustained and the remaining group conducted 8.4 minutes of moderate activity. On average, the subject took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. Read the rest of this entry »