Physical activity and exercise within the context of obesity treatment: Enhancing health beyond weight loss.

ABSTRACT: Overweight and obesity are significant public health concerns worldwide due to their association with many chronic health conditions. This has resulted in the development of various interventions focused on weight loss to reduce the associated health burden. Physical activity is an important lifestyle behavior associated with enhanced health. Evidence supports that many of the benefits of physical activity are realized independent of initial weight status or whether weight loss is achieved, with some benefits additive to what is achieved with weight loss alone. These benefits include enhanced cardiometabolic, brain, cognitive and psychological health, and others. Moreover, in adults with overweight or obesity, physical activity has independent effects on cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular

SUBMITTER: Jakicic JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12856422 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature