That exercise is the key to losing our collective weight is something that we know so deep in our cultural guts that to question it would be ridiculous.
Except that is what the most cutting-edge obesity researchers are now doing. The recent studies show that the benefits of exercise for weight loss have been overstated. This idea is shocking. It goes so far against the orthodoxy that it is not something many can accept. And certainly for governments and the food industry that places them under so much pressure, it is too much to swallow.
But, as Professor Boyd Swinburn, director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, says: “This is provocative in many ways . . . but my concern is that if we put the emphasis on exercise we are unlikely to tackle the obesity problem as we are not driving at the root cause.”
The idea that exercise will help to shed pounds is fairly recent — emerging at the same time that obesity began to boom in the 1980s.
Why on earth would I want to “get out of the gym”??? I’m a bodybuilder. The idea of training is to GAIN bodyweight. Unless you’re operating under some homosexual, pencilneck philosophy. So go home to mommy before I kick sand in your face.
So what is this guys magic bullet?
What a pile of crap. Work out and calorie count was what helped me to lose over 25 pounds. Nothing else did.
I thought the first line of the link was better:
“Exercise? A fat lot of good that is for weight loss . . . . . ”
But the link is a good read and expresses/reveals what common sense already knows.
Keep the pie hole shut if you wanta lose weight. Course the “goal” is to be more healthy, and that does require some amount of “moving.”
In my younger days, up at 600AM to play tennis or swim and I recall bitching about having to waste time to eat. Now, its just the reverse and a major interest is “baking.” Times have changed for the worse, right along with the metabolism.
Interesting correlation, ((if its true?))==line up people from fat to think and you have also lined up people from the lowest caloric intake to the highest.
Well DUH…if you keep eating any of the multitudes of processed pseudo food crap we produce, no matter what you do, you will be “genetically compromised”
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# 1 Buffet,
“Why on earth would I want to “get out of the gym”??? I’m a bodybuilder. The idea of training is to GAIN bodyweight. Unless you’re operating under some homosexual, pencilneck philosophy.”
Oh my God, a bodybuilder who can actually read and write!
A friend of mine is a personal trainer, he says that if you really want to lose weight use the spinning bicycles, cardio only begins to work after doing it for an hour.
Wow, people on bed rest lost more weight than those who exercise. What a wonderful surprise. Exercise builds muscle, which will offset some of flab you lose. This is the second article I saw about this. So now, America won’t just be a nation of fatties from eating, they’ll be atrophing themselves too.
**Exercise won’t help me…nom nom nom***
@#4 “Interesting correlation, ((if its true?))==line up people from fat to think and you have also lined up people from the lowest caloric intake to the highest.” – very untrue. Way too many other factors. Activity has something to do with it (ex. #3) but it is not be-all. Extreme example: Atkins diet. You can literally eat 5000-6000 calories and “spend” less than 1000 … and lose weight. Because metabolism on that type of food functions very differently.
Maybe the obesity boom of the 80′s has something to do with high-fructose corn-syrup starting to be produced in mass quantities at the time? When I was in Europe all the soft drinks have real sugar and you don’t see so many fat-asses.
#9–dusanmal==I suspect its not true even though I have read it a few times. I think it is certainly “possible” to selectively create such a line up==but statistically I would hope the truth is as you say.
Yes, I lost weight steadily on my “Zone Diet” a variant of Atkins. But after a while, you do find out so much of what you really like actually is carbs. Especially in baking. RATS!!!!
Exercise/Activity is important in its own right. The two issues interact with one another. silly to ignore either.
It doesn’t shock me. If I eat less, or avoid chocolate, ice cream, etc I lose weight. Otherwise I gain weight or stay put.
I run 3 or 4 days a week. All running does for me is keep me fit until ski season starts.
its taken them YEARS to figure out what HELPS loose weight.
ACTIVITY..
Weight training is nice, but its DANCE and movement and soforth that will help loose more weight.
I always found it funny that WALKING and running were prescribed, but they DONT help, EXCEPT in the legs and butt.
You must move the whole body..
Common knowledge for the knowledgeable.
A treadmill for two hours will still not be enough to burn that Big Mac you put in your pie & burger hole in 5 minutes.
Republicans should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh for dietary guidance. Drugs and hamburgers are not the way.
well no shiat exercise will counteract the goal of weight loss. Thats because it builds muscle mass, which is sort of a good thing to have. Stupid bastards are feeding us bad science which will hurt us.
Angel…Covert Bailey has made a nice living teaching just the opposite…he says during aerobic activity your body starts drawing from fat reserves in around ten minutes….once the blood sugar energy is used up.
Anyway, you prompted me to pull one of his books off the shelf and re-read it.
And the diet industry doesn’t want you to go to the gym, because you might realize its the only way to lose fat.
I call BS, simple rule to lose weight. Burn more calories than you take in this means activity. Doesn’t matter what type of activity as long as it burns calories. The typical failure for those that attempt to lose weight by exercising is that the exercise makes them hungry (duh) therefore they eat more. QED if I eat more because I exercise than no matter how much I exercise I will not lose weight. I do cardio, lift, hike and other assorted activity. If I watch my diet my weight goes down. If I don’t watch my diet I typically stay the same or gain slightly until I start to watch my diet again.
I have gotten so sick of the sanctimonious “all fat people have to do is simple: exercise more and eat less”
If it was that simple, everybody would be thin.
People who glibly say this are just showing their ignorance.
Actually it is that simple Greg. People usually just don’t have the willpower,time, and/or energy to worry about it when they can “just not eat that hamburger tommorow”.