Re:How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:18PM
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I was only arguing against this statement from your post: "I am not aware of any evidence that exercise on its own actually works for weight loss..."
I'm not disputing that the obese need both diet and exercise to reach a healthy weight (that's pretty easy to see, just by looking at the Harris Benedict equation), I'm just making you aware of evidence that exercise on it's own does work for weight loss.
As for whether 11lbs of fat loss is significant or not, I guess that's mainly a question of where you draw the line for "significant". If you want to label anything less than 20lbs in 6 months "not terribly significant", be my guest.
Also, jogging 4x/week (what the paper described as "high intensity") is not a "large exercise load".
I'm not disputing that the obese need both diet and exercise to reach a healthy weight (that's pretty easy to see, just by looking at the Harris Benedict equation), I'm just making you aware of evidence that exercise on it's own does work for weight loss.
As for whether 11lbs of fat loss is significant or not, I guess that's mainly a question of where you draw the line for "significant". If you want to label anything less than 20lbs in 6 months "not terribly significant", be my guest.
Also, jogging 4x/week (what the paper described as "high intensity") is not a "large exercise load".