Can Exercise Alone Bring About Weight Loss?
Posted on March 8, 2010
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An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction. But does diet or exercise help more to lose weight?? Scientists carried out a couple of exercises to fcome up with the answer.
Weight Loss Studies
There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning exercise or nutrition has a bigger impact on fat burning. As few studies like this had been conducted, scientists followed them closely.
They compared weight loss results between people who move from the big cities to the suburbs and vice versa. The nutritional intake of both sets of subjects were similar. The results were expected, but fascinating.
Findings from the studies
- within the first year of moving from a city to the suburbs, the participants in the studies gained, on average, 15 pounds
- within the first six to eight months of moving to a city from the suburbs, the subjects in the studies lost an average of 15 pounds
The main conclusion of the studies was as follows: The subjects living in a city did more walking than the subjects living in the suburbs. While subjects living in the suburbs rode in a car to get to wherever they wanted to go (supermarket or school etc), subjects in the city often walked there. This was responsible for the weight change.
Recognized experts agree that exercise has a greater bearing on losing weight than your diet. It was said that exercise accounts for 65% and nutrition for 35%.
If you want to get rid of the excess weight and fat on your body, you will need to exercise as well as pay attention to nutrition. But we dont live in a perfect world and none of us are perfect.
How can you use the results of these studies?
Can you burn fat and lose weight permanently if:
- you follow the right exercise routine, but do not change your diet?
- you follow a good weight loss diet, but dont exercise at all?
- you only somewhat abide by the direction provided for nutrition and exercise?
Click here for answers to these fat burning questions.
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