today, an important article about the role of exercise to get or stay thin (or healthy). i've always felt that body weight should be determined by diet and that exercise should determine body composition. even though the article does not address these thoughts directly, i do think it contributes! all that to say, people don't seem to like to exert self control with food and try to over-compensate by exercise (to a punishing degree). this sort of behavior is not sustainable over a meaningful period of time and it only works while you're young and reasonably healthy. it's a losing battle and harmful habit no matter how you put it. we all seem to have a love/hate relationship with both food and exercise. in reality, they are both innocuous and have no meaning until assigned.
the bottom line for me in the article was that health and fitness is cumulative over a lifetime and that being gentle toward yourself in both intake and output may very well be the best approach.
"Streaming through much of the science and advice about exercise and weight loss is a certain Puritan streak, a sense that exercise, to be effective in keeping you slim, must be of almost medicinal dosage — an hour a day, every day; plenty of brisk walking; frequent long runs on the treadmill. But the very latest science about exercise and weight loss has a gentler tone and a more achievable goal. “Emerging evidence suggests that unlike bouts of moderate-vigorous activity, low-intensity ambulation, standing, etc., may contribute to daily energy expenditure without triggering the caloric compensation effect,” Braun wrote in the American College of Sports Medicine newsletter."
article here
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Amen! Who wants to go through life hungry?
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