Exercise for Obese Youth: Refocusing Attention from Weight Loss to Health Gains

Despite evidence to the contrary, exercise interventions for obese youth target weight loss as a means of improving health. Using Exercise is Medicine® as a framework, we present a conceptual model for the beneficial effects of exercise independent of weight loss in obese youth and highlight novel biomarkers of cardiometabolic health that could prove useful as interventional targets for this population.
Source: Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews - Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Articles Source Type: research