Don’t Skip Exercise in Lifestyle Interventions for Kids With Obesity
Exercise is a key component of a family-based lifestyle intervention program aimed at helping kids lose fat, according to a secondary analysis of a nonrandomized controlled trial. Over the 22-week program, kids with overweight or obesity whose families participated in a lifestyle intervention program with supervised exercise training saw an 18.1% reduction in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) versus an 8.5% reduction for those in the basic lifestyle program (P=0.004), reported…