Diet or exercise, or both, for weight reduction in women after childbirth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Weight retention after pregnancy may contribute to obesity. It is known that diet and exercise are recommended components of any weight loss programme in the general population. However, strategies to achieve healthy body weight among postpartum women have not been adequately evaluated.

Objectives

The objectives of this review were to evaluate the effect of diet, exercise or both for weight reduction in women after childbirth, and to assess the impact of these interventions on maternal body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, breastfeeding performance and other child and maternal outcomes.

Search methods

We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (31 January 2012) and LILACS (31 January 2012). We scanned secondary referenc

SUBMITTER: Amorim Adegboye AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9392837 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature