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It's mostly about diet, not calories burned, unless you're burning a LOT of calories each day.

• naravara 4y ago
  For most people weight creeps up on them slowly. Losing a lot of weight quickly does require radical changes to diet, but not putting on the pounds in the first place is generally going to be a matter of burning an extra few hundred calories a day. Also, just not being sedentary all day is associated with a ton of positive health outcomes (possibly mental even more than physical) independent of body fat percentage. So it’s worth it all on its own.
  • knicholes 4y ago
    Of course! Nobody can deny the panacea that is exercise. But it's still a widely misunderstood concept. Throughout many of these comments, people are claiming that the remedy to obesity is more exercise, but I hold that indeed a much larger component of combatting obesity is diet, not exercise.
    • naravara 4y ago
      I’d say on a population level exercise (as in more active, less sedentary lifestyles) will be a large factor. Though on an individual level you are right that diet will be the big thing. Though population level there is also a lot of food policy and incentive structures we could alter to improve diets in general as well.