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You 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
by astrange 3y ago
You 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.