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Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise. The body gets really efficient at doing repetitive motions and starts burning fewer calories for the same ac
by belltaco 3y ago
Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise. The body gets really efficient at doing repetitive motions and starts burning fewer calories for the same actions.
- imgabe 3y agoMoving will always burn more calories than not moving.
- belltaco 3y agoNot necessarily. > In 2016, Pontzer and colleagues published a study putting forward the constrained energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with more activity, but only to a point. Once physical activity gets really high, the body will adjust other components of the metabolism to keep your daily energy expenditure within a narrow range https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/ https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-office-workers-burn-as-many-calories-as-hunter-gatherers/260384/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-off...
- imgabe 3y ago99.9% of people do not need to worry about reaching a “really high” level of activity where it will stop burning more calories.