Risks In Heart Patients Reduced By Walking Often And Far

Amazing! Burning more Calories, burns more Calories.

"An exercise program that burns a lot of calories reduced cardiac risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation in overweight coronary patients, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

'The higher-caloric exercise, consisting of almost daily long-distance walking, resulted in double the weight loss and a greater fat mass loss than standard cardiac rehabilitation exercise,' said Philip A. Ades, M.D., lead author of the study and professor of medicine and director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington. 'And probably most importantly, these patients improved their insulin sensitivity to a greater degree.'...

The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Vermont College of Medicine."

Your tax dollars at work.