Exercise Keeps Dangerous Visceral Fat Away A Year After Weight Loss

It has got to be a lie.

"A study conducted by exercise physiologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies finds that as little as 80 minutes a week of aerobic or resistance training helps not only to prevent weight gain, but also to inhibit a regain of harmful visceral fat one year after weight loss...

In the study, UAB exercise physiologist Gary Hunter, Ph.D., and his team randomly assigned 45 European-American and 52 African-American women to three groups: aerobic training, resistance training or no exercise. All of the participants were placed on an 800 calorie-a-day diet and lost an average 24 pounds. Researchers then measured total fat, abdominal subcutaneous fat and visceral fat for each participant."

First, this is Nazi-level dieting, impossible for normal people and should never have been approved for research, IMHO. (see here, here, here and here)

"Afterward, participants in the two exercise groups were asked to continue exercising 40 minutes twice a week for one year. After a year, the study's participants were divided into five groups: those who maintained aerobic exercise training, those who stopped aerobic training, those who maintained their resistance training, those who stopped resistance training and those who were never placed on an exercise regimen.

'What we found was that those who continued exercising, despite modest weight regains, regained zero percent visceral fat a year after they lost the weight,' Hunter said."

It cannot be true since there is no way to measure fat content without a standard error, even using the best techniques.

It is a virtual impossibility to gain weight without some of it being as fat.

They MUST have gained some fat if they gained weight.

I am all for training (not exercise) but this report is unbelievable.