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Obese women can get healthier without diets

Obese women can improve their health without dieting by changing their eating habits and exercising more, researchers said on Monday.

They showed that lifestyle changes including exercise programmes, such as tai chi, aqua aerobics and circuit training, coupled with behaviour modification, can improve health risks in obese women even if they do not lose significant amounts of weight.

“People of all sizes and shapes can reduce their risk of poor health by adopting a healthier lifestyle,” Dr. Erika Borkoles, of Leeds Metropolitan University in England, told a news conference.