Premium
Effect of Seven Week’ s Diet Program for Woman on Body Weight Loss and Health related Index in KOREA
Author(s) -
Koo Jae ok,
Park Hee Jung
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.851.8
Subject(s) - overweight , weight loss , medicine , obesity , body mass index , body weight , demography , weight gain , gerontology , sociology
This study was carried out to analyze the effect of diet program on weight loss, eating habit, health related index. The subjects were 415 participants of the 7weeks (20times participation program). The data was collected by questionnaire, measuring weight and health related index by basic somatometry. The average age, height, weight and BMI were 28.6 years, 162.1cm, 62.8kg and 23.9kg/m 2 , respectively. Their body types by BMI were under weight(1.2%), normal(45.8%), overweight(24.8%), mild obesity(22.7%) and obesity(5.5%). The rates of over weight and mild obesity group significantly decreased 11.4% and 9.3% and the rate of normal group was increased 18.9% during the program. There average weight significantly reduced 2.7kg on 10th and 4.6kg on 20th, and 1.03kg/m 2 on 10th and 1.75kg/m 2 on 20th. There was significant difference of stress index, fatigue index between improving weight and no change group. There were positive change in stress(4.6%), in fatigue(43.9%), health index(54.5%) of the subjects, during the program. In conclusion, the weight loss program was effective on the weight loss and BMI reduction eating habit. Grant Funding Source : Korea National Open University 2011