Get Moving
Our resident scientist, Jen Wade, pointed me to this interesting study about weight. Jen Wade sums it up nicely: "They asked obese and lean volunteers to wear special underwear with motion sensors on it, and found that the lean people were much more active than their obese counterparts. They say different people have different natural activity levels, and that this is a major contributing factor to body weight."
The doctor in charge of the study has replaced his desk chair with a treadmill.
The doctor in charge of the study has replaced his desk chair with a treadmill.
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if exercise was the key I would of been a pole years ago.most of the people I see exercising were already lean or fairly lean not obese.
exercise burns very little for the amount of effort and to burn one pound you would have to walk what was it like walk 12 hours if you are burning 300 caloires an hour like the tout.
that is if you don't eat any more caloires to compensate, and who doesn't eat more when they exercise, I am always hungerier after a vigourous workout then when I have a sedetary day.
losing fat permenantly is not about burning more than you take in or eating less than you burn, it is about understanding teh body's biology and physiology and understanding the famine feast cycle and how it makes one fat and fatter the longer one is on it knowingly or not.
our bodies are designed to take care of the weight issues our problem is we interfere with it because of dieting propaganda and myths about bad foods good foods etc and we don't allow the body to tell us what we need and how much and when and this itself is interpreted by some peoples' bodies as a famine, thus starting that famine feast cycle.
we have trained ourselves knowingly or unknowingly to store excess fat by not eating on time, not hearing hunger cues because of past dieting efforts, and having food prejudices and food fears.not eating until complete satiaty and just plain not always paying attention to our bodies cues.
RR
This study is not about exercise. It's about the non-exercise activity that we all engage in every day to some extent: standing, fidgeting, chewing gum, etc.
"The researchers believe the tendency to sit still or move around is biological and inborn, governed by genetically determined levels of brain chemicals. And that tendency influences weight - not the other way around, the researchers say."
Hmm...it's funny--I know plenty of thin people who don't fidget and move as little as possible all day and I've known heavy people who can't sit still. Interesting, eh?
Caffeine pills, anyone? LOL
Adam Wilk www.dietkingbook.com
Man, I wish I could replace my office chair with a treadmill. 8 hours a day at 1 mph? I'd get in way more activity than I do right now, and without thinking about it.
Well, I couldn't sit still as a child, and I wasn't overweight then. I think it might be true for me.
About exercise in general: I think some people find it helps more than others. My mother never found exercising had much effect on her weight, but I've only ever managed to lose while taking regular vigorous exercise. The number of calories you burn doing the exercise is the whole story: you are also building lean muscle, which burns more calories even when you're sitting still. Certainly I am rubbish at dieting, but I'm still losing weight (slowly) and if it isn't the 3 gym visits a week that's doing it, then I don't know what it is!
Anyway, I would rather be fit than thin, if it came to a choice.
That should have read "The number of calories you burn is not the whole story".
silly-looking fidget attempt of the moment: replacing my home office chair (okay I'm a student) with one of those giant exercise balls.
Because apparently, all the wobbling while you (read blogs for hours) work means toning _all day long_.
This study only encourages me.
I don't think there's going to be weight loss because of it, incidentally, but we all agree that you feel better when you're moving, yes?
I'm a fidgety, can't sit still, overweight person - not technically overweight right now, but I've never been naturally thin either, always on the threshold between "healthy weight" and "overweight". So I'm not sure about this theory.
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