Non-exchangeability of running vs. other exercise in their association with adiposity, and its implications for public health recommendations.

Current physical activity recommendations assume that different activities can be exchanged to produce the same weight-control benefits so long as total energy expended remains the same (exchangeability premise). To this end, they recommend calculating energy expenditure as the product of the time s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul T Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3396625?pdf=render