We go to the gym in order to lose weight. On January 1st, we begin exercising and losing weight. Here. Unfortunately. After reading over sixty studies, it turns out. Exercise is useless for losing weight.

Some of the most important weight loss and exercise studies have been conducted by Dr. Kevin Hall at the National Institutes of Health. Exercise should not be marketed as a means of losing weight. Outside of quitting smoking, it’s the best thing you can do for your health. It is not intended for weight loss.

Workouts can help. Longer and happier life Simply put, it is not the best way to lose weight. Because of the way our bodies use energy. Physical activity accounts for a small portion of your daily energy expenditure. We expend calories in three ways. To keep you alive, your resting metabolism burns energy.

Food’s thermogenic effect contributes to energy consumption. How much energy is required for digestion? Physical activity uses 33% of the energy available. Physical activity—any movement—consumes 10-30% of energy for most people. As a result, your basal or resting metabolism burns the majority of your daily calories, but you have complete control over your calorie intake.

You only have control over 30% of the calories you consume. According to one study, a 200-pound man who ran for an hour four days a week for a month would lose no more than 5 pounds. Changes According to research, increased daily exercise causes behavioral and physiological changes. For one thing, exercise causes people to become hungry. I’m sure you’ve gone to a morning spinning class and been so hungry that you doubled your oatmeal portion. Consume.

Some people take it easy after a workout. You might not take the stairs at work if you ran in the morning. Behavior that is compensatory. Our unintentional workout stumbling blocks Metabolic compensation was discovered by researchers. People’s resting metabolism slows as they lose weight, reducing energy burn.

This bar may shrink as you lose weight. One 2012 study is particularly intriguing. In Tanzania’s Savannah, they measured the energy burn of Hadza hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherers who are extremely active and lean They do not sit at desks. They discovered startling results. There was no change. Despite being more active than Americans and Europeans, the Hadza did not burn more calories per day. Their physical activity energy was saved somewhere else.

How do they stay? Slim? They consume fewer calories. We can quickly replenish calories burned through exercise. An hour of running burns off a Big Mac and fries. Three glasses of wine necessitate an hour of brisk dancing. Dinner may include alcoholic beverages. An hour of intense cycling burns two doughnuts. Thats.

Why is exercise a good addition to a food-focused strategy? Despite the fact that the US government has extremely high obesity rates, agencies continue to promote exercise. Companies that want us to consume their products do as well. Coca-Cola has been promoting physical activity since the 1920s. Consume all of these soda bottles.

We’ve seen that exercising doesn’t work. It’s difficult to burn off soda calories. Obesity should not be blamed on a lack of physical activity and a high calorie intake. Public health policymakers should improve our food environment to encourage healthier eating. Exercise can help you lose weight. It’s more difficult.

That is significant. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to go to the gym and burn all these calories, but you can erase it in five minutes of eating. Pizza. Most people are unaware of the surprise of relative magnitude.