Exercise: it’s an hour a day, people. Seriously. (LA Times)
Comments(0) A recent study found that overweight and obese women needed to exercise about an hour a day, five days a week to sustain weight loss. The findings bolster what some health experts — and those who have lost weight and kept it off — have been saying for years: copious amounts of exercise and adherence to a strict diet are necessary to take off the pounds and keep them at bay. –Jeannine Stein
[Here is an example showing why people need to be aware of rhetoric in everyday living. The article claims 30 minutes of daily physical activity is not enough for sustaining weight loss and recommends an hour per day. The problem becomes clear with a closer look at the sample. Participants are females who are already overweight or obese, not average people considering losing a modest amount of weight, which I suspect is true for a majority of adults. BK]
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