Recent research shows it will take at least 1 hour of activity per day for the average woman to fight off the extra flab.  Of course any women overweight will need more exercise than 1 hour per day.

Fast paced walking, cycling and golfing are all examples of moderate exercise.   But don’t give up if you can’t do any of these for an hour a day because any exercise is better than nothing.

The study followed 34000 women over a 10 year time span.  These were all middle aged women not on any diet.  Only 13 percent of them were average weight and gained little or no weight.  The rest were mostly overweight and all gained weight even with the 1 hour workout.

So any overweight women should exercise more than one hour per day and stick to a strict diet if they plan on losing any weight at all.  Age is another factor that is against us.  As we get older our metabolism slows causing us to gain more easily.

Dr. Howard Eisenson, who heads Duke University’s diet and fitness center, said “You can eat a candy bar in two minutes. Most are at least 200 calories, and to burn that off requires walking for about an hour.”

So think twice before eating that junk food.