Forget the exercise, just eat less

No, that oversimplifies, but as someone who has been exercising regularly (and not eating particularly healthfully) for the past 18 years, I found this article in Time about exercise pretty depressing.  I have a lot more willpower to exercise than to eat right, but the evidence strongly suggests that eating right is the real key and that exercise makes surprisingly little difference.


Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State
University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies
have found that exercise isn't as important in helping people lose

The basic problem is that while it's true that exercise burns calories
making it harder.

Of course there are important benefits to exercise, but weight loss is not apparently truly among them.  Sad conclusion for me: eat less pizza.  The whole article is definitely worth a read.



About Steve Greene
Professor of Political Science at NC State

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