Thursday, 26 December 2013

African-American women need 'greater obesity effort'

Obesity researchers have found that African-American women need to consume fewer calories or do more activity to achieve the same weight-loss rates as Caucasian women who start at a similar size. They cite a lower metabolic rate to explain the greater difficulty in reducing obesity.The University of Pittsburgh, PA, team of metabolism experts say that previous research has also found that African-American women fail to lose as much weight as Caucasians in response to medical help, and that this has raised questions about how well the group adheres to the measures put in place. via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..


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