Exercise Intervention for Weight Reduction
Mid-Term Paper (50 points) – Exercise Intervention for Weight Reduction
Your goal is to come up with the most effective exercise intervention (there will be no right or wrong answers) for weight reduction based on scientific evidence (findings from research experimental studies). Similar to article summaries, you will need to find research articles using school library website, google scholar, PubMed, etc. Make sure you paraphrase and use your own word (you will get 0 point if you simply copy and paste from research articles). Please upload it as word doc or pdf. No late work will be graded. Use the following formats.
Font – Times New Roman 11, double spacing, 1-inch margins.
Length – Minimum 6 pages & maximum 10 pages (Intro + Review + Conclusion),including the references, figures, tables.
References – Minimum 8 references (research articles including experimental research papers and review / meta-analyses papers). Provide references list at the end.
Introduction (20 points)– Discuss about obesity in overall (e.g., what is obesity? why is it dangerous? etc.). Discuss about the importance of weight reduction in obese individuals. Discuss about importance of exercise in weight reduction.
Literature Review (20 points) – Discuss about different exercise interventions (articles) that have been utilized for weight reduction. E.g., What exercise interventions did they use? What did they measure? Who were the participants? What did they find? Were there any limitations?
Conclusion (10 points) – Based on what you found from previous studies, what exercise intervention would you recommend to obese individuals? Why do you think this intervention is more effective than other exercise interventions?
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