Diet, exercise or diet with exercise (meta-analysis)

[Dominique]

An interesting meta-analysis:

"Diet, exercise or diet with exercise: comparing the effectiveness of treatment options for weight-loss
and changes in fitness for adults (18–65 years old) who are overfat, or obese; systematic review and
meta-analysis"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429709/pdf/40200_2015_Article_154.pdf

It’s quite long (28 pages), but you can read the abstract on page 1 and the conclusions on pages 23-24. It basically ranks the various options as follows (from more to less effective):

1) diet + resistance training

2) diet + resistance training + endurance training

3) diet + endurance training

4) diet only

[betpchem]

Cool. Thanks for sharing!