<p>Thirty minutes of daily exercise provides an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as does a 60-minute routine, according to a Danish research.<br /></p>.<p>Forty percent of Danish men are moderately overweight. <br /><br />For 13 weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen followed 60 heavy but healthy men in their efforts to get into better shape.<br /><br />Half of the men were set to exercise for an hour a day, wearing a heart-rate monitor and <br />calorie counter, while the second group was to exercise for 30 minutes, the American Journal of Physiology reports.<br /><br />Research results showed that 30 minutes of exercise hard enough to produce a sweat was enough to turn the tide on an unhealthy body mass index, according to a Copenhagen statement.</p>.<p>On average, the men who exercised 30 minutes a day lost 3.6 kilo in three months, while those who exercised for a whole hour only lost 2.7 kg. <br /><br />The reduction in body mass was about 4 kg for both groups, reports Mads Rosenkilde, doctoral student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences.</p>
<p>Thirty minutes of daily exercise provides an equally effective loss of weight and body mass as does a 60-minute routine, according to a Danish research.<br /></p>.<p>Forty percent of Danish men are moderately overweight. <br /><br />For 13 weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen followed 60 heavy but healthy men in their efforts to get into better shape.<br /><br />Half of the men were set to exercise for an hour a day, wearing a heart-rate monitor and <br />calorie counter, while the second group was to exercise for 30 minutes, the American Journal of Physiology reports.<br /><br />Research results showed that 30 minutes of exercise hard enough to produce a sweat was enough to turn the tide on an unhealthy body mass index, according to a Copenhagen statement.</p>.<p>On average, the men who exercised 30 minutes a day lost 3.6 kilo in three months, while those who exercised for a whole hour only lost 2.7 kg. <br /><br />The reduction in body mass was about 4 kg for both groups, reports Mads Rosenkilde, doctoral student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences.</p>