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That's simply not true. With intense enough exercise, a diet that would cause obesity among ordinary people will leave you extremely underweight with not enough
by joefourier 7y ago
That's simply not true. With intense enough exercise, a diet that would cause obesity among ordinary people will leave you extremely underweight with not enough energy to get through the day. If you look at athletes such as competitive swimmers and cyclists, you can find diets of 8,000 calories a day and more. Individuals such as Antarctica explorer had to consume massive amounts of butter, sugar, chocolate and animal fat to get through the day due to the intense amount of physical activity.
Of course, it is much easier and practical to eat fewer and healthier foods rather than exercise to such extreme amounts.
- lgeorget 7y agoThat's not my point though. It's not contradictory to say "intense exercising can cause starving if you don't eat enough" and "exercising cannot prevent overweight without a proper diet".
- joefourier 7y agoHow is it not contradictory? That intense exercising is doing just that, preventing you from being overweight even if you are consuming tremendous amounts of calories and unhealthy foods. You don't have to go too extreme either - take an average overweight person and put him through a certain amount of physical exercise - say, cycling multiple hours a day. He will lose weight with his original unhealthy diet, which had lead to him being initially overweight.
- lgeorget 7y ago"cycling multiple hours a day" Well, I wasn't imagining _that_ level of exercising either. That's already sounds quite extreme to me. My initial point was the following: just doing more sport is not going to help if you don't even know how much and how badly you eat. You need to reflect on your diet first, and then exercise, even if Coca-Cola wants you to believe that you can drink as much soda as you want without consequences, and that it's your own fault if you get fat afterwards.