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Stepping up your
walking program can
burn serious calories.
BY
GALE M ALESKY
ome people
can lose weight
and keep it off
without
regular
exercise but,
chances are,
you’re not one of them. In fact,
the vast maj ority of people
aren’t. Of those on the National
§
Weight Control Registry—the
biggest, longest-running survey
of people who have lost at least
30
pounds and kept it off for
more than a year—over
90
percent use physical activity to
ensure their continued success.
Walking about an hour a day
is their exercise of choice,
something that is no surprise to
Dr. Anne McTiernan, director of
the Prevention Center at Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle. She and her
colleagues found that sedentary
people who simply began to
walk briskly,
60
minutes a
day, six days a week—no
dieting involved—saw big
improvements in their health.
