Tips For Fast Weight Loss - Pedometers Motivate Weight Loss
Wearing a pedometer can help you lose extra pounds, even if you do not diet, the researchers report.
How many pounds? About 1 pound every 10 weeks, or 5 pounds in one year, according to a new research review.This may not sound as much weight, but every little account, Caroline Richardson, the University of Michigan, MD and colleagues. They reviewed nine studies on pedometers, walking and weight loss.
In the studies, overweight or obese adults started hiking programs based on pedometer without diet. Pedometers are pager size devices, worn on the waist, that log loges taken.
The details of the studies differed. In some studies, participants traveled 10,000 steps per day. Participants in other studies have obtained personalized goals such as the walk of 1,000 daily steps. The longest study lasted for one year; The shorter study lasted a month.
Together, the data show a "modest amount of weight loss", Richardson and colleagues write in the annals of family medicine.
People may lose more weight if they also updated their diets, but this was not necessary in reviewed studies, Richardson team notes.
. Another study, published in November, shows that pedometers motivate people to walk more, improving blood pressure as well as weight.
