3 ms·
The key to losing weight with VR for the average person isn't in exercise-specific apps, it's in replacing sitting video game time with something just as engagi
by crooked-v 3y ago
The key to losing weight with VR for the average person isn't in exercise-specific apps, it's in replacing sitting video game time with something just as engaging but that has you standing, walking in circles, crouching, and waving your arms around for a few hours instead. You're obviously not going to get buff from it, but it can add up fast for an otherwise sedentary person.
- ProfessorLayton 3y agoWhile exercise is great and should be done regardless, the key to losing weight is almost entirely in the kitchen.
- astrange 3y agoYou don't lose weight via exercise, you lose it via diet. Exercise is sometimes found counterproductive in empirical studies because it makes you less compliant with your diet, which is much more important.
- asdff 3y agoYou still need to be mostly active vs sedentary in order to be healthy. We didn't evolve to sit in front of a monitor.
- astrange 3y agoThis is true, which is why I didn't say that.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoNo, you lose it by not being sedentary.
- astrange 3y agoIt's diet. Exercise only interventions are ineffective. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212267214010557 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221226721... Anyway, the modern answer is Ozempic.
- steve_adams_86 3y agoIt seems exceedingly unlikely that Ozempic will compare positively to regular movement and a healthy diet in the longer term. Even our most prized pharmaceuticals seem like hacks compared to behaviour-based solutions.
- astrange 3y agoIt actually seems plausible since it has the side effect of stopping addictions and improving your self-control! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-addictive-behavior-drinking-smoking/674098/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-a... But I don't think behavior and diet are necessarily the cause; there's some room for gut bacteria (which control your behavior anyway) and environmental pollutants.