Sunday, April 26, 2015

You can't 'outrun' obesity: Study says exercise doesn't help weight loss...

A team of British cardiologists have said it's time to "bust the myth" that regular exercise tackles obesity.

The strongly-worded editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, published in the May edition of the journal, says you can't outrun a bad diet and that although regular exercise reduces the risk of developing a number of health issues such as heart disease, dementia, some cancers and type 2 diabetes, it doesn't promote weight loss unless it is paired with dietary changes.

Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1980, according to the World Health Organization, with 600 million people globally categorised as obese. In the UK obesity affects one in four adults, according to the NHS.

The NHS defines obesity as adults who have a Body Mass Index of 30 or over.

The authors of the study say the public is "drowned by an unhelpful message" from the food industry that obesity is caused entirely by a lack of exercise, going so far as to describe the tactics used as "chillingly similar" to those employed by big tobacco companies when the links between smoking and lung cancer were first revealed. Full story...

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