'Baseless claims' its harder for women to lose weight

[Northerner]

?Women have to work harder than men to lose weight and get fit? the Daily Mail says, reporting that women have to do around 20% more exercise to get the same benefits.
The Mail?s coverage on this study is arguably woeful ? offering a combination of both misleading and confusing reporting.
This was an extremely small, experimental study of 10 men and 12 women with type 2 diabetes and obesity.
The participants performed handgrip tests and had their blood pressure, heart rate and other body measures taken before and after taking part in a 16-week aerobic exercise programme that involved walking four days a week outside or on a treadmill.
The main finding was that women?s blood pressure took longer to ?recover? (fall back to ?normal levels?) following a handgrip test than men, both before and after the exercise programme.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Baseless-claims-its-harder-for-women-to-lose-weight.aspx

 

[LeeLee]

Rubbish and extremely limited study, with even worse reporting. However, as far as weight loss goes at SW, the men do seem to lose it faster than the women. That could be because men naturally carry more muscle, which burns more energy than other tissue.