Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Thoughts on recent Atlantic article, "Exercise in Futility"?

Has anyone else seen this recent Atlantic article on exercise? While I agree with the basic idea that food is more important than exercise in losing weight, I felt like they went too far in bashing exercise (which has so many benefits outside of weight loss) and had some really faulty logic.

Here are some snippets: "This might be because the energy you use up isn’t directly tied to how much you move" and "growing evidence suggests that our metabolism might even slow down as we lose weight—perhaps because increased activity triggers the body to save calories, so that an energy deficit doesn’t disrupt important bodily functions". Is that a thing? I thought it was well established that metabolism decreases when you lose weight because there's simply less of you to move around, so it takes less energy? I usually like the Atlantic, and the article was well-cited, but it just seemed weirdly anti-exercise to me, so was curious what others' reactions were.

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