Better way to exercise to reduce body fat.

The article was posted on NYTimes Health Blog.
It is enlightening in a way especially if your purpose is to rid the body fat.
One important take away point is that less intense exercise is better to burn accumulated body fat.
Like walking at an elevated phase that enable your heart rate optimul to burn fat at around 134.
Here are some of the interesting findings;

If you work out at an easy intensity, you will burn a higher percentage of fat calories” than if you work out a higher intensity, Carey says, so you should draw down some of the padding you’ve accumulated on the hips or elsewhere — if you don’t replace all of the calories afterward. To help those hoping to reduce their body fat, he published formulas in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research last month that detailed the heart rates at which a person could maximize fat burning. “Heart rates of between 105 and 134” beats per minute, Carey said, represent the fat-burning zone. “It’s probably best to work out near the top of that zone,” he says, “so that you burn more calories over all” than at the extremely leisurely lower end.

There are some insightful findings of the research in this article and here is the link.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/phys-ed-why-doesnt-exercise-lead-to-weight-loss/?em