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Doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
- sys_64738 8y agoExercise makes you hungry.
- ykevinator 8y agoThis is the sad truth about genetics. And it leads to self elevation of the genetically thin by equating thinness with self restraint and morality.
- DrScump 8y agoI wonder if the full article brings up the fact that there are genetically-determined response levels to aerobic exercise. See Michael Mosley's "The Truth About Exercise" and the University of Bath study it refers to.
- exabrial 8y agoNon paywall anywhere?
- 6nf 8y agoCan't read the article so I have to assume it's misinterpreted results or a crappy study.
- timbit42 8y agohttps://outline.com/sSzxbx https://outline.com/sSzxbx
- badosu 8y agoExcept for metabolic adjustment where the body spends less calories by being more efficient with exercise or slower with low calorie diet and the notorious fact that people underestimate calorie ingestion it really is not as complicated as this article makes it sound. It is very difficult to cutivate a consistent healthy diet and exercise regimen indeed and except for very few physiological/mental reasons any recommendation that denies caloric deficit is garbage.
- 6nf 8y agoRight so really the headline is 'diet is more important than exercise when it comes to weight loss' which is no surprise to anyone
- belltaco 8y agoMaybe not in informed circles like HN, but that is very surely a surprise to a lot of people in the mainstream.
- xfitm3 8y agoAnecdotally regular exercise eliminates my cravings for junk food. If I do indulge I feel terrible for the rest of the day.
- scoot 8y agoI'm surprised this has been posted, never mind upvoted by anyone rational. Doing work consumes energy. End of discussion. (There is an argument that it is easier to eat less than to exercise more, but that is a different debate. Ideally you do both.)
- ykevinator 8y agoThis is not how homeostasis works (at all). Metabolism is real and so is genetically determined caloric retention. Thin people don't necessarily eat less or exercise more, they sh*t more calories than fat people, who store more. It's not all this, but it is also not zero this. Regardless, it's absolutely not as simplistic as producing and consuming energy, it's a few billion years of evolved genetic diversity of retaining and eliminating calories for homeostasis.
- solveit 8y agoI don't see how any of that relates to the comment you replied to. No matter how your metabolism works, exercising will burn calories, and I think that's all the above comment was getting at. Now that that's been said, would you happen to have a reference for >Thin people don't necessarily eat less or exercise more, they sh*t more calories than fat people, who store more. this? I would be interested in reading about the correlation.
- krageon 8y agoThe person you are responding to isn't necessarily wrong about metabolism being real. I wouldn't say fat people "store more", it's just that if you see thin people eating a ton (and not moving much) and being thin the odds are good that they have a very fast metabolism (by which I mean their base metabolic rate is significantly above the average, to the tune of 4k+ kcal per day). I know this because when I was in university we did at-rest calculations with a hood over the head (to calculate oxygen usage, which we used to calculate BMR). Notoriously thin people had outrageous BMRs like I mentioned, while most people were around the average. I don't know about people who are fat, as I didn't have them in my class.
- labanux 8y agoSeems like a clickbait article
- Sabinus 8y agoWhat about the HN users who don't have a subscription to newscientist.com?
- timbit42 8y agohttps://outline.com/sSzxbx https://outline.com/sSzxbx
- CtrlAltEngage 8y agoThis only provides what is available for free?
- iamNumber4 8y agoTrue, the simple fact is you can’t out run your mouth. Exercise is good for other health reasons not for weight loss. In fact if your severely overweight jumping on a treadmill will damage your joints. Intermittent fasting, and eating diets like unethical vegetarian (meat sometimes) are great for weight loss. If your going to eat junk, binge, get it out of your system. Try to limit this to rare and appropriate moments. Birthday parties, event dinners. Don’t feel bad you enjoy food, don’t take it away, just don’t eat junk regularly. Do low impact cardio like swimming or biking, do low joint stress strength training (yoga or resistance weight training) Relax, don’t stress, sleep more, eat less ( when your body tells you to eat only not because of the clock). Relearn thirst vs. hungry. Your probably not hungry, just thirsty most times.