Today's 10-minute walk is helping both of us remain fitness consistent. Hi, I'm Dave. Let's go for a walk.

I want to read you something that I found recently about a study which was published in the journal Nutrients in January 2022.

It followed 25 postmenopausal women who were asked to follow a walking routine for 15 weeks.

At that point, 9 finished the study. 16 continued for another 15 weeks.

All the study participants walked about three miles for four days a week.

Those in the fastest group walked a little more than four miles an hour,

and they exercised for about 45 minutes a day.

Those in the slower group walked at about three miles an hour,

worked out for about 54 minutes a day.

Out of the 16 women who did the routine for 30 weeks, those who walked at a slower pace

lost 2.73 times, almost three times more fat than the speedwalkers.

Are you surprised?

Also worth noting, the fast walkers did not lose fat

until they finished the 30 weeks of exercise

while the slower folks consistently lost fat during the study

period. And the article continues on with this question. Why does slow walking boost weight

loss? And the article concludes it's not entirely clear. The researcher simply found

that people in the slower walking group lost more weight, they didn't determine why that was the case.

So, quick synopsis. It is a small sample size. Twenty-five women. I'm not a researcher.

By the way, I'm also not a doctor or a licensed personal trainer. This podcast is for education and entertainment purposes alone.

I do know because I have been involved, not in health research, but music research.

As the program director of a radio station, we would every week send out clips of songs

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