In rural women over 40 who are overweight or obese, adding structured exercise classes didn’t make them move more during the day than just giving them basic advice — so those classes alone might not help them get more active.
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Changes in diet and physical activity resulting from the Strong Hearts, Healthy Communities randomized cardiovascular disease risk reduction multilevel intervention trial
The study gave rural women exercise classes and other healthy living help, but when they wore devices to measure real physical activity, there was no big difference between those who got the full program and those who got just basic info. So, the exercise classes alone didn’t make them move more in a way that machines could detect.
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