Does exercise facilitate body weight control? The answer may depend on sex

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 15:52 in Health & Medicine

Healthcare practitioners regularly prescribe diet and exercise as a method for patients to lose weight. But exercise might not be equally effective in males and females, according to new research. In a study conducted in rats, researchers fed both male and female rats a high fat diet and then trained half of them to run on a treadmill.

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