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"Diet vs. Exercise for Weight Loss"
When trying to lose weight, which is most important: diet or exercise? This is what a survey found
recently -- the vast majority of those trying to lose or maintain weight believe that both monitoring food
and beverage consumption, and physical activity, are equally important in weight management and
weight loss. Most people go with equally important, then exercise, and then diet. And most people are wrong.
Identified as one of the most common misconceptions about obesity in this recent review, the
confusion about the leverage of exercise on body weight. Unfortunately, the energy balance
equation, you know, calories in have to equal calories out, suggests that energy intake and energy
expenditure occupy equivalent roles in determining energy balance, when in fact the factors governing
energy intake influences the energy balance far more powerfully than the factors
determining resting energy expenditures. What we put in our mouths is most important.
For example, to walk off the calories found in a single pat of butter, you'd have to add an extra 700 yards
to your stroll that evening. A quarter mile jog for each sardine we put in our mouth — and that's just
the edible part. And those who choose to eat two chicken legs better get out on their own two legs
and run an extra three miles that day to out run weight gain. And that's for steamed chicken, skin removed.