Investigating anthropometric measurements and nutritional intake changes after intermittent fasting accompanied by exercise in adult women

Abstract EN

Investigating Anthropometric Measurements and Nutritional intake Changes after Intermittent Fasting Accompanied by Exercise in Adult Women Obesity is a big problem that has a great effect on health and production.

Approximately 2.1billion people in global suffer from obesity.

As well as the female obesity in Egypt were 41.1 % in 2016.

Subjects and methods: One hundred females were randomly chosen from social media groups of Facebook and What's App at the age from (26 to 49 years old) have multi-nationality of Arab countries.

Design the training unit included lectures presented through Skype application for fifteen days (45 h.

) the training unit aims to provide each participant with the knowledge of Intermittent Fasting (IF) principles and healthy diet after, the finish of the training unit 83 females accepted to participate in the IF plus exercise activity for 6 weeks.

Results: The obesity of grade 1(BMI >30-35) was a high percentage of 37.3 % in participants, while the low percentage was 4.8% for women who have obesity in grade 3.

Results indicated that about 92.72% of subjects have overweight and obese, and 85.5 % of those having waist circumference ≥80 (cm).

BMI was significantly (p≤0.01) decreased in women after six weeks followed IF plus exercise compared to women before fasting.

The calorie intakes and conicity index of women were significantly (P ≤ 0.01) lower compared to before fasting.

The hemoglobin levels, RBC, and WBC counts were not significantly different before and after fasting.

Conclusion: The intermittent fasting through some hours 12 h.

/day combined with exercise activity (1/2 hour 3 times/ per week) for 6 weeks improved the body shape, BMI, anthropometric measurements, healthy statues for adult women.