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Media Coverage of Obesity and Exercise Study Leaves out Many Findings
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Media Coverage of Obesity and Exercise Study Leaves out Many Findings
February 23, 2014
Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/article/
media-coverage-of-obesity-and-exercise-study-leaves-out-many-findings
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/kdcdza6
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Extensive media coverage since Friday regarding a recent study on obesity
and exercise levels distorts the research's intents and findings while
perpetuating stereotypes about overweight people.
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The study, published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, intended to test
whether a particular accelerometer device did an adequate job of
monitoring a person's physical activity level.
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While most news articles have latched onto the finding that obese men and
women engage in very little "vigorous" exercise over the course of a year,
the study examined less than week's worth of activities for each study
participant and acknowledges limitations of the device used to measure
activity. By its measures, normal weight and overweight individuals also
engage in relatively little high-level physical activity.
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The researchers write that the device they were testing to measure
activity "underestimates the true level of physical activity because it
captures only ambulatory movement and cannot accurately measure
nonlocomotor activities." The device failed to accurately measure many
types of exercises, such as swimming, bike riding, stair climbing or
weight lifting.
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In addition, while obese women did show only enough vigorous exercise
during the study time period to equal about an hour over the course of an
entire year, normal weight women's amount of vigorous exercise came out to
just 10.95 hours per year. While it's significantly more than the obese
women or overweight ones (3.65 hours), it's still not a huge amount of
exercise.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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