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> Exercise helps people to lose weight. Exercise has been extensively studied in relation to weight loss, and has been found to be of limited effectiveness. M
by mlyle 3y ago
> Exercise helps people to lose weight.
Exercise has been extensively studied in relation to weight loss, and has been found to be of limited effectiveness. Many studies found no effect, and meta-analyses found modest effect sizes.
Your anecdotes don't change my mind. The problem seems to be, exercise uses up willpower and makes you want to eat more, and only in very indirect ways (improving BMR, etc) really helps.
Of course, exercise improves a bazillion other things: cardiovascular health, blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc, etc, etc.
- taeric 3y ago"Uses up willpower," I thought, was also studied and found to be lacking as a thing? I think it is fair that "exercise" in the form of specific activity with the sole purpose of doing the activity is likely much harder to get results from than folks admit. I think it is also fair that getting more active, period, is more effective than people will admit. You don't have to have a gym membership to keep from getting over weight. You do have to be active.