Listen To Your iTouch And Podcasts And Lose Weight
October 20, 2009 by Mohamed
Filed under Weight Loss
If a recent article on Yahoo! Health is any indication then YES – listening to podcasts can help you lose weight. But not just any old podcast – banging your head to Metallica, or Slayer just won’t do. Rather the podcast needs to offer engaging and sound diet and exercise advice that follows behavioral theory.
In the study, overweight and obese men and women listening to behavior-therapy based weight-loss podcasts for 12 weeks lost more than 6 pounds (2.9 kilograms) on average, Turner-McGrievy and colleagues report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
In contrast…
By contrast, a similar “control” group of 7 men and 29 women, just under 40 years old on average, who listened to weight-loss and positive thinking advice offered in a generally available podcast, lost less than one pound (0.3 kilograms) on average.
Unfortunately the story doesn’t list what podcasts were made available to the control group.
Luckily the article is available for FREE – you do need to register to view it though. URL is http://www.ajpm-online.net/issues/contents?issue_key=S0749-3797(09)X0009-7 and the link to the article is available here: http://www.ajpm-online.net/article/S0749-3797(09)00419-X/fulltext.
Source: http://health.yahoo.com/news/reuters/us_podcast_weight.html
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