For Weight Loss, What’s More Important: Exercise or Food?

This is NOT diet food

What you eat, and how much, are more important than your physical activity.  By far.

• Your genetics largely determines your response to an exercise program
• Physical activity isn’t a great way to lose weight
• School-based or other programs to increase childhood physical activity probably won’t reverse childhood obesity statistics
• Disregarding weight loss, exercise has other worthwhile metabolic advantages
• Highly advanced societies shouldn’t blame our overweight problem on decreased levels of physical activity

Skyler Tanner slaughters some sacred cows in his blog post June 4, 2012. I pulled these bullet points from his post. Click on his embedded links for details.

Steve Parker, M.D.