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Obesity increases the risk for many fatal diseases, including cardiovascular disease, and is recorded in the United States, as being the second preventable leading cause of death (smoking is the first) (World Health Organization, 2000). One of the recommendations for weight-loss is exercise. The Consumer Report (2002), for instance, showed that exercising at least three times a week was a strategy that 73% of successful dieters shared (Brannon & Feist, 2007).
Many people, however get intimidated at the very thought of exercise due to the required self-discipline and immensity of the project. Then, too there is gym membership that is costly for the average working person, aside from which there is the element of time too. For someone, for instance a single mother whose life orbits around her job and her children, attending a gym would mean an hour less of work that she, patently, can barely afford to do. In all ways, therefore, for many people exercise is an intimidating specter.
The Honolulu Heart program (Hakim et al., 1998) produced research that showed that men who included a daily walk of 2 or more miles cut their risk for sudden cardiac death in half. A similar study from the Cooper Clinic in Dallas (Stofen et al., 1998) on a mixed-gender group reported similar results. The problem was that...
It also did not compare results with a gym-fixated individual or with one who followed a conventional weight-loss program.
The thesis, then, that I would like to investigate is whether the Honolulu Heart program's proposal has an equal chance of success for an overweight individual and its comparison to two kind of conventional programs: attendance at a regular gym, and attendance in an aerobic / weightlifting program.
Methodology
I would have four different groups, randomly sampled, on a population that come from a similar socio-economic background between the ages of 25 -- 40, both genders, of multi-ethnic origin. Inclusionary conditions would be the fact that all individuals have either never exercised before, or exercised infrequently, and have not been exercising for at least a year prior to joining the program. All individuals would also be overweight (no obese). None of these individuals would be currently on a diet, or taking medication that is dedicated to losing weight. None either are attending a behavior modification program or some other program oriented to weight loss. Their personal lives would be investigated to ascertain that no…
References
Branon, L., & Feist, J. (2007). Health Psychology. USA: Thomson Wadsworth.
Hakim, A.A. et al. (1998). Effects of walking on mortality of nonsmoking retired men, New England Journal of Medicine, 338, 94-99.
Stofan, J.R., DePietro, L., Davis, D., Kohl, H., & Blaie, S.N. (1998) Physical activity patterns associcated with cardiorespiratory fitness. American Journal of Public Health, 88, 1807-1813.
World Health Organization. (2000). Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. WHO Technical Report Series, 894.
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