英文摘要 |
This study was designed to research how different weight loss programs of 8 weeks make an influence upon the body mass index (BMI) and blood lipid status of overweight female college students. Twenty-four participants, whose BMI were higher than 25, attended 3 programs of weight loss in a voluntary way. Each group consisted of 8 members volunteering to engage in aerobic exercise, diet control, and combination with aerobic exercise and diet control. An exercise protocol of 40 min treadmill walking day-1, 3 days week-1, was followed for 8 weeks in the aerobic exercise group. The exercise intensity was maintained with 50%--70% HRmax by a wireless POLAR system during the exercise. As to the group of diet control, participants were provided with food of average 1383+147.5 kilocalories (carbohydrate: 66.26%; fat: 20.34%; protein: 13.4%) every day. The blood lipid status, i.e., body weight, BMI, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high-density lipid (HDL), and low-density lipid (LDL), of the participants was measured before and 48 hours after the experiment. The results showed that (1) in the first group, the participants' body weight, BMI, TG, and HDL improved significantly (p<.05) after 8 weeks of the aerobic exercise training; (2) in the second group, after 8 weeks of diet control, the participants' declined body weight, BMI, TC, TG, and LDL apparently (p<.05); (3) in the third group, after 8 weeks of aerobic exercise combined with diet control, body weight, BMI, TC, TG, and LDL significantly declined, while HDL apparently increased; (4) before the programs of weight loss, three groups showed no differences in the blood lipid status; (5) in terms of posttests, the group of aerobic exercise combined with diet control and the group of diet control were both superior to the group of aerobic exercise in TC, while the group of aerobic exercise combined with diet control and the group of aerobic exercise were superior to the group of diet control in HDL. In conclusion, aerobic exercise and diet control lead to distinctively positive effects in reducing body weight, BMI and in improving the blood lipid status. However, the combination way seems more helpful in improving the overweight females' blood lipid status. |