Women who want to lose weight cannot just rely on dieting - they must exercise too, perhaps in their ladies fitness wear - a recent study has suggested.

Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) found that simply reducing caloric intake is not enough to achieve significant weight loss.

They suggested that this is due to a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces a person's physical activity when the amount of food consumed is reduced.

"Food is not always plentiful for humans and animals and the body seems to have developed a strategy for responding to these fluctuations," explained Dr Judy Cameron, a senior scientist at OHSU.

She went on to say that the new findings could help to bring about new interventions to battle the obesity epidemic using both healthy eating and exercise, which could include regular sessions at the gym in ladies fitness wear.

Earlier this week, Tam Fry, trustee of the National Obesity Forum and chairman of the Child Growth Foundation, asserted that measures that have so far been put in place to tackle this problem have failed as adult obesity levels are continuing to rise.

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