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As an aid-fashioned as it sounds, doctors say the best way to lose weight is to eat less and
exercise more. For women who are middle-aged 'or older, experts say an hour of daily exercise
is necessary just to keep weight.
But for most women, fitting in an hour of exercise in an already busy day is difficult, and it is
even impossible. Especially for many women, most hours are already filled with a full-time job
and raising a family. At the end of the tiring day, at least in the U.S., there is little incentive to
prepare a dinner when fast food is so available--and so much more fattening.
Nearly twenty million women in the U.S. have the problem of obesity. The United Nations
report notes that America is one of the countries that have the most obese people in the world
and Mississippi has more overweight women than any other state in the U.S.. The U. S. Center
for Disease Control says the number of overweight women increased by 60% between 2004
and 2009 in America. The World Health Organization says more than one billion women in other
nations are in the same shape.
While there is plenty of advice on how to lose kilograms, a new study is carried out on
middie-aged and older women who keep normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index). "We
found that physical activity was effective in controlling weight only among women who started to gain
weight from a normal BMI ,'I-Min Lee and her colleagues found more exercise did not help.
"Once a woman is obese, there was no relation between physical activity and weight change
among these women, "Lee said. The researchers say the only way that obese women can lose weight
is to simply cut calories.
1. What makes it difficult for most women to have an hour of exercise every day?
A. Losing confidence in exercising.
B. Paying all attention to their jobs.
C. Having no interest in exercising.
D. Being too busy to find spare time.
2. The third paragraph shows us that ______.
A. more and more women are caring about their weight
B. the problem of woman obesity worldwide is serious
C. many organizations are built to care about fat women
D. America has more overweight women than any other country
3. What should an obese woman do to lose weight according to Lee?
A. Eat more vegetables and fruit and less fat.
B. Keep busy all day long and do a lot of exercise.
C. Find a high energy costing and tiring job.
D. Sleep less, eating less and exercising more.
4. From the passage, we know an hour of daily exercise can ______.
A. help people to lose weight
B. make people put on weight
C. make people keep weight
D. keep people busy
