{"id":173881176,"date":"2010-07-06T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173881176"},"modified":"2010-07-06T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:19:36","slug":"a-little-biking-may-help-premenopausal-women-stay-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173881176","title":{"rendered":"A Little Biking May Help Premenopausal Women Stay Slim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Mozes<br \/>\nHealthDay Reporter<br \/>\nMONDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Riding a bike is as effective as walking briskly at helping premenopausal women keep from gaining more weight, a new study reveals.<br \/>\nClick here to find out more!<br \/>\nBiking is particularly helpful at keeping pounds off such women who are overweight or obese, said study lead author Anne C. Lusk, a research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.<br \/>\n&quot;Women of normal body weight can certainly benefit from biking,&quot; she noted. &quot;But specifically for overweight and obese premenopausal women, bicycling just two to three hours per week makes them 46 percent less likely to gain more than 5 percent of their initial body weight over the long run.&quot;<br \/>\nResearchers also found that slow walking &#8212; walking less than three miles an hour &#8212; does not help control weight.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/diet-fitness\/fitness\/articles\/2010\/06\/28\/a-little-biking-may-help-premenopausal-women-stay-slim.html\">https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/diet-fitness\/fitness\/articles\/2010\/06\/28\/a-little-biking-may-help-premenopausal-women-stay-slim.html<\/a>oldId.20100706121936405<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Riding a bike is as effective as walking briskly at helping premenopausal women keep from gaining more weight, a new study reveals. Click here to find out more! Biking is particularly helpful at keeping pounds off such women who are overweight or obese, said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=173881176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Little Biking May Help Premenopausal Women Stay Slim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173881176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173881176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173881176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173881176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173881176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173881176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}