[Physical exercise for preventing obesity, promoting weight loss and maintaining weight management].
Obesity is a multifactorial disease making difficult the determination of the precise role of one specific factor such as physical activity or sedentary. Nevertheless, numerous arguments, derived from epidemiological observational studies or from randomized controlled interventional trials, support a favourable role of regular physical activity in the control of body weight. Physical activity contributes to prevent the occurrence of weight excess, especially in children or adolescents, to obtain a satisfactory weight loss, in general in combination with reduced-energy diets, and to maintain long-term weight loss. In addition, physical activity improves both the metabolic profile and health of obese subjects.
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Département de Médecine, CHU Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège.
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D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D015444:Exercise; D006293:Health Promotion; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011634:Public Health; D015431:Weight Loss