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Of special interest was to compare these parameters of exercise on fat loss in the same study and with the same subjects where they were found to suppress bone mineral loss. We hypothesized that (1) more total fat will be lost with slow walking and a longer impulse than with fast speed and shorter impulse, and (2) more abdominal subcutaneous (SC) and visceral fat (VF) will be lost with fast walking speed. Materials and Methods: Fat loss and suppression of bone mineral loss were measured in the same 25 subjects after 15 weeks, and fat measurements were also taken after 30 weeks in 16 residual subjects. Study parameters were walking a 4.8 km distance 4 days\/week at either 6.6 km\/h (120% of ventilatory threshold (VT)) or at 5.5 km\/h (101.6% of VT) and expending 300 kcal\/session. Body composition (fat and lean body mass, LBM) was measured with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and anthropometric methods. Results: Slow walkers in the residual group progressively lost a significant percent of total body fat over 30 weeks while no such loss occurred after 15 weeks in fast walkers in either group, supporting hypothesis 1. However, the 20% higher starting body fat in 16 residual slow relative to fast subjects suggests that exercise fat loss is greater in overweight than in lean subjects. In fast walkers, fat loss occurred after 30 weeks of training. Hypothesis 2 was not supported as both speeds led to equal VF loss in 30-week group as estimated by waist circumference (CF) confirming that VF responds to the magnitude of energy expenditure and not the walking speed. Conclusions: Total body fat is lost through walking at all speeds, but the change is more rapid, clear, and initially greater with slow walking in overweight subjects. A longer exercise impulse at a lower speed in our study initially produced greater total fat loss than a shorter one with fast walking speed. This was reversed in comparison to how the same exercise in the same subjects suppressed bone mineral loss. Data from other studies indicate that longer impulses may promote greater fat loss at both slow and high exercise speeds, and our study providing only a 4.8 km walking distance may have limited the walking impulse and the magnitude of fat loss. Increased exercise energy expenditure at either walking speed produces equivalent declines in visceral fat in postmenopausal women, and with sufficiently long impulses, should reduce disabilities associated with central obesity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nu14030627","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,31]],"date-time":"2022-01-31T08:20:29Z","timestamp":1643617229000},"page":"627","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Effects of Walking Speed on Total and Regional Body Fat in Healthy Postmenopausal Women"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jacquelyn M.","family":"La New","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Kinesiology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8892-9783","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katarina T.","family":"Borer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Kinesiology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity among Adults Aged 20 and over: United States, 1960\u20131962 through 2017\u20132018","volume":"3","author":"Fryar","year":"2021","journal-title":"Vital Health Stat."},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"106273","article-title":"National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017\u2013March 2020 prepandemic data files\u2014Development of files and prevalence estimates for selected health outcomes","volume":"2021","author":"Stierman","year":"2021","journal-title":"Natl. 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