Effects of a Nutrition Education and Exercise Program of Overweight or Obese Female Adults on Nutritional and Health Status
2010
Kim, E.J., Dong-Eui University, Busan, Republic of Korea | Hwang, H.J., Dong-Eui University, Busan, Republic of Korea
This study was to designed to investigate the effects of nutrition education and exercise program for overweight or obese female adults, and also emphasize the necessity of a proper nutrition education. The anthropometric characteristics, nutritional intake, eating habit, and hematological index, physical examination were measured before and after program. Considering the time schedule of the subjects, the exercise program was divided into 3 sessions (morning, afternoon, and evening) and the subjects performed swimming and weight training for 4 weeks. The subjects were overweight or obese women, with an average age and height of each 46.1 and 156.3 ㎝. The weight and BMI were decreased significantly after nutrition education and exercise program. The back region of front arm (p less than 0.001), infrascapular region (p less than 0.001), body fat (p less than 0.001) were significantly decreased, and grasping power (p less than 0.01), back muscle power (p less than 0.001) were significantly increased after nutritional and exercise program. Total triglyceride level and fasting blood glucose (p less than 0.001) were decreased significantly after program. The intakes of vitamin D and vitamin B₁ were significantly changed after nutrition and exercise program. As for eating behavior and nutritional knowledge evaluation after program, the average score increased significantly (p less than 0.001). The results of this study show that this nutrition and exercise program can be an effective approach to improve their hematological index and nutritional and health status.
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