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So it's almost if, in addition to exercising, these people need to track their calorie intake accurately. Truly groundbreaking.

• DanBC 11y ago
  You missed the point that, for weight loss, counting calories + exercise is no better, and may be worse, than just counting calories.
  • coryl 11y ago
    The basic physics of this doesn't make sense. If you hold calorie intake as constant, and then increase energy expenditure through exercise, then the energy has to come from somewhere. What I think you're saying is that getting overweight people to exercise may yield mixed results because of their lack of discipline or other human psychological factors. But to suggest that exercise doesn't help with weight loss goes against the laws of physics.
    • DanBC 11y ago
      Look it up. There have been plenty of studies. You should recommend exercise because it's healthy. You should be careful when recommending exercise as a weightloss measure because we know it doesn't help people lose weight. Your comment about laws of physics is true, but misses the point that exercise makes it harder for people to maintain food changes, and it's food changes that are most important for weightloss.
  • duaneb 11y ago
    They aren't different processes. Eating is calorie intake. Exercise is burning calories. The "counting calories" necessarily involves taking into account both. if you live an extremely sedentary lifestyle, you need to eat fewer calories. The more you exercise, the more calories you can intake.