translated from Spanish: Exercising with friends, the best to lose weight

researchers have found that having friends that increase in weight, mostly friends of the same sex, increases the chances of accumulating overweight by more than 50 percent. That is much more than your spouse increases weight. But they also found that the same type of social influence can help you lose weight. In fact, share a goal of physical activity with its social network can help all those who constitute it. The team approach is more effective for people from 18 to 35 years of age, but he has also had success with older Americans. Read also: this is the ideal time to exercise is an example large-scale happened in Rhode Island. With resources of a company devoted to well-being, Shape Up, now part of the Virgin Pulse, the State encouraged thousands of people to create teams to promote weight loss and physical activity, and to compete with each other.

 Just a year involved almost 1,000 small teams, some with just a few members. Some self-proclaimed captains recruited members of the team, monitored the progress of his group and motivated members by sending mood messages and updates. Read also: constant exercise helps to live longer and have more energy of New York City has its own initiative, Shape Up NYC, offering a variety of fitness options to the communities of the five municipalities. It reported that 65 per cent of participants lost weight and experienced regarding an improvement of health benefits, and 83 percent said that they felt an increase in power. Successes in Rhode Island and New York validate the team approach to lose weight, the researchers say. But you don’t have to live in an area that is sponsoring a program of this type to create a team in his own circle of friends or coworkers. Set goals and start a friendly challenge to help everyone stay on the right track. In this note:

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