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Re:Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States by bsder on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:37PM (#27953963)
Exercise is not a great way to lose weight. The phrase is: "You can't outrun the fork."

Deuterated water studies back this up. Humans burn roughly the same amount of calories active or passive. The body only shunts the available calories around.

Now, exercise has lots of documented benefits. Weight loss just isn't one of them.

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Re:Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States by Retric on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:45AM (#27958254)
The body temporarily shuts down multiple processes like digestion during exercise to increase peak performance. However, it still needs food etc so those calories are still burned during downtime. Active people can consume 2-3x as many calories in a day as inactive people do. At the extreme end some elite athletes need 8,000+ calories per day diets simply to maintain weight.
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