Do I Have To Exercise To Lose Weight?

An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction. But does exercise or nutrition have a bigger affect on weight loss? 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 nutrition or exercise has a bigger impact on fat burning. The studies were particularly interesting.

They reviewed the affect of a move from the city to the suburbs, and vice versa, on the weight of the subjects. The nutritional intake of both sets of subjects were similar. There was little that was unexpected in the findings.

What the studies revealed

• 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. Suburbanites used their cars more than city dwellers to get from place to place, while city dwellers walked more. This was the reason for the change in weight.

Recognized experts agree that exercise has a greater bearing on losing weight than your diet. To give you an idea of how diet and exercise each affect weight loss, it has been said that it is 65% - 35% in favor of exercise.

Research shows that to lose weight you should do an exercise progam as well as a diet program. 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 dont do any exercise, but you are doing a well known weight loss diet?
• you do not wholly adopt the guidance on exercise and nutrition?

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