Which Contributes More To Weight Loss – Exercise Or Nutrition?
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? Nutritionists and physiologists did research to find the answer.
Weight Loss Studies
There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning exercise or nutrition has a bigger impact on fat burning. As few studies like this had been conducted, scientists followed them closely.
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.
Findings from the studies
- 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. The city dwellers in the study tended to walk much more to go to wherever they were going, while people living in the suburbs tended to drive. This accounted for the change of weight.
Recognized experts agree that exercise has a greater bearing on losing weight than your diet. In terms of the relative impact that exercise and nutrition have on weight loss, it was said that exercise is accountable for 65% while nutrition is 35%.
Research shows that to lose weight you should do an exercise progam as well as a diet program. But the consumate human being and the consummate world does not exist.
Even if you havent moved from or to a city, does the study results have meaning for you?
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 just partly comply with the recommendations on nutrition and exercise?
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