At the Obesity society meeting in San Diego many studies has been presented for being getting physically active.

Aerobics when followed with strength enhancing exercises becomes the most effective technique.

Timothy Church, director, preventive medicine research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, along with his colleagues had examined the people suffering from type 2 diabetes, doing either of the two and some doing both of them.

They found that patients doing both forms of the exercise lost around three pounds in just nine months with reduction by 1 inch in their waist line and subsequently their hemoglobin A1C had shown improvement during the blood sugar tests.

Federal government has issued guidelines for the physical activities, which recommends that adults must do about 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity which includes brisk walk, or 75 minutes of high intensity exercises such as swimming, jogging or both.

Guidelines further highlighted the importance of building muscle power by doing exercises for chest, back, shoulders, hips, legs, highs, and abdomen. The exercises can be done by either using free weights or by machines, resistance bands, push-ups, pull-ups, sits-ups.

The guidelines also recommend watching TV commercials related to exercises and said that viewers will eventually start eating less.

Ellen van Kleef said that the exercise commercials had made the people to think about the leading the healthier life styles and the ways to maintain or attain good physique.