Comments on: Moderate Exercise and Weight Loss

By: Health Specialist

Health Specialist — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:47:08 +0000

True, lifestyle does matter when it comes to how you look. Most of the obese people are obese because of their horrible life styles. Its important that along with diet control, exercises etc, one has to change the life style to suit the same.

By: Free Trial

Free Trial — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:36:02 +0000

You really have to put in the work to lose weight and get fit, but i think what most experts want people to do with '30 minutes a day' is to get at least SOME exercise. Most Americans are completely sedentary throughout the day, and getting the heart pumping for a little bit a day can go a long way and add years onto our ever shortening lifespans

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By: sam

sam — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:45:16 +0000

Cutting refined sugars or all/most carbs out of your diet almost always results in less calories in. Less calories in and same calories out gives you a pretty good shot at loosing excess weight.

I think the mechanism (involved in reduced refined carbs) involves a reduction in circulating insulin, which results in lipolysis.

By: Grewgills

Grewgills — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:10:34 +0000

Cutting refined sugars or all/most carbs out of your diet almost always results in less calories in. Less calories in and same calories out gives you a pretty good shot at loosing excess weight.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:41:13 +0000

@Fausta

I had to switch to a low carb diet because of blood sugar problems, which makes it very easy to stay slim. It's all in the carbs.

I have to agree with Fausta, here. Three weeks ago, I cut out all the refined carbs (bread, pasta, essentially, any of that white stuff...). To date, I've lost about 12 pounds. It's had another benefit. I have pretty good case of arthritis, and I suffered from pronounced stiffness, systemically, upon waking. Since I've cut that stuff out of my diet, I don't seem to have any of that stiffness any more. Refined carbs, of the white variety, are inflammatory agents I've been told. (I still drink wine, eat the occassion ice cream cone...oh, and I play golf 3-4 times a week, and now I can walk the course). I realize this is anecdotal, but it is my experience.

By: One Fine Jay » Really simple

One Fine Jay » Really simple — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:31:00 +0000

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By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:24 +0000

Keep in mind that many obesity studies use the height/weight index which is highly inaccurate.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:36:16 +0000

Baker
It is much more complicated than that. Exercise and lifestyle has influence on one’s weight but biology does as well. Type of exercise and lifestyle goes far beyond than if one is active or how many calories one intakes. Different exercising regime will give different results. Genetics have a great influence as well as metabolism. Also it isn’t a one way deal. In college I had fellow football players that would take in massive amounts of calories and couldn’t gain the weight they wanted while others did. The same things happen with gaining strength, speed and quickness. People’s bodies have different predispositions. Not that one cant’ adjusts their body with work or lack of.

By: Jeffrey W. Baker

Jeffrey W. Baker — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:31:05 +0000

Chum I've read Taubes' articles over the years but his game doesn't explain the real world. Here in the real world, lifestyle makes _all_ the difference. There's nothing in his worldview to explain the fact that people in big dense cities like New York and San Francisco are not obese like people in other parts of the nation. Obesity rates in our big cities are in the low single digits while being > 60% in the country at large. That's not explained by Taubes' shaky diet theories. It _is_ explained by the fact that people in big dense cities walk everywhere, which reinforces the exercise boosters. And, yes, it reinforces the laws of thermodynamics which after all don't need reinforcing because they are iron-clad.

By: Grewgills

Grewgills — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:27:55 +0000

I added 2 15-20 semi strenuous bike rides a day (4-5 days a week) and a bit of extra walking without substantially changing my caloric intake (or fat/carb/protein ratio) and it had a dramatic effect on both my health and weight (~40 lbs) over about 6 mos. After that point I reached a new equilibrium and my weight and % fat remained more or less constant as long as my lifestyle did.
At least for me and the people I know regularly engaging in ~30 min of aerobic exercise effects both health and excess weight. Adding up trips to the kitchen, coffee machine, and toilet don't count towards your 30 min.

By: kalthalior

kalthalior — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:24:19 +0000

Interesting thesis. My own experience with this has been you have to work at it in order to achieve your goals. Joined a gym and hired a trainer Feb 2007 and been working out ever since, although I've taken breaks from the trainer at times for financial reasons - hiring one isn't cheap. Weight training for 45 minutes 2x per week, and at least 2x 30 minute cardio sessions. I'm down 70 lbs and cut my body fat % by over half. I'm 10 lbs off my HS football playing weight - 22 years later. The big thing for me was to control my calorie intake and slowly ramp up the amount of additional activity (I jog 3x a week and walk my Lab 4-5x a week now) I do each week - and finding the time to do it. Persistence is really a key, as is stepping on the scale and refocusing if you oscillate the wrong direction a bit.

By: chum

chum — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:46:05 +0000

Baker wins the gold medal! And as always, misunderstands the role of the laws of thermo with respect to weight loss.

I've seen the Taubes video, and he addresses the gross error in Baker's religious certainty. No one is saying the laws of thermo aren't true. I believe the poster above referred to the directionality of the laws, something very, very different.

Ah, but then Jeffrey would have to stop and think. Watch the video, Taubes addresses precisely this inability to think. World class scientists do it, so why shouldn't he?

I bet he neither budges an inch, nor watches the video to correct his mistake...

By: Jeffrey W. Baker

Jeffrey W. Baker — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:32:46 +0000

Anyone who says that "weight is regulated by biology" should be thrown out of the university by an angry mob from the department of physics. Yes, your body may struggle to return to a certain weight, but unfortunately it can only really do that in one direction. If you, as Triumph so aptly remarks, shovel down the Ho-Hos at lunch and never exercise then your body has no means by which to return to its desired point. You must use diet and exercise to help your body. People who say "calories in == calories out" aren't repeating some irrational religious mantra. They say that because it's an inviolable law of the universe.