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We've often argued about this, and I feel strongly that diet alone is an inadequate response to issues of obesity, diabetes etc, but until I listened to the podcast of this 'long read' I hadn't realised how much the 'exercise' line is touted by big business - particularly Coca-cola.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/03/obese-soda-sugar-tax-mexico
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Runners' saying:
"You can't outrun a bad diet"
I certainly think people overestimate how many calories they burn while cycling. Riding a couple of gentle miles to a cake shop is not going to result in weight loss.
The problem with exercise is the minute any meaningful weight loss kicks in, so does The Hunger so you need to have a lot of self control to keep taking in the same amount of calories while upping the activity levels.
In my opinion, what exercise does is help maintain a steady weight or at least minimise the gain - I think it was the Harvard Nurses study that found that women who cycled regularly to work gained less weight over a couple of decades than those who didn't.
From my point of view, it's the ability to eat the odd slice of cake when I fancy it that motivates me to cycle, walk or run more than I might otherwise. I did calculate that an 11-mile bike ride was roughly equivalent to two slices of toast with butter & jam, which puts it in perspective!
@stiltskin - sure but exercise is about far more than just weight gain. gentle miles* to a cake shop does all sorts of other good things too
*your gentle miles may be quite strenuous exercise for someone else, especially uf they're carrying a lot of weight around.
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