Searching for Postmenopausal Exercise Sweet Spot Randomized trial tested two different amounts of exercise in postmenopausal women.

Daily exercise in otherwise healthy postmenopausal women had a dose-response effect on weight-loss in a year-long trial that tested 30-minute versus 60-minute exercise sessions 5 days a week, researchers reported. Out of 400 postmenopausal women who were evenly split into two groups, either 150 minutes or 300 minutes of vigorous exercise per week, the women who exercised more averaged more total weight loss (least-squares mean difference, -1.0% body fat, 95% CI -1.6% to -0.4%, P=0.002), and lost more subcutaneous abdominal fat (least-squares mean difference -10.8 cm2, 95% CI -19.5 to -2.2 cm2, P=0.01) and waist to hip ratio (-0.01 cm, 95% CI, -0.02 to 0.00 cm, P=0.04), according to Christine M. Friedenreich, PhD, of CancerControl Alberta in Canada, and colleagues. http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Menopause/52633?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-07-17&eun=g721819d0r