Activity levels have collapsed.
You can save yourself years of extra health-span standing in any way more than sitting.
Turns out knowledge work is just as dangerous as physical work, you just die in a different way and the coffin is larger.
You can save yourself years of extra health-span standing in any way more than sitting.
Turns out knowledge work is just as dangerous as physical work, you just die in a different way and the coffin is larger.
It's really pretty shocking how much added sugar there is in anything with more than 1 ingredient, and getting more sweetness in is basically a race with every other element of someone's diet. The 1980s had it junk food, but there was still other food.
Is it? Glancing around, it seems to me that the stark difference is between places where nobody walks or bikes anywhere — Tulsa, Little Rock, etc — and places where everyone walks and bikes — NY, DC, SF.
I've heard that keeping a calorie intake diary is an effective way to lose weight. I also had pretty good results with it personally by setting a calorie target in an app and sticking to it.
I see people in SF walking around with some Starbucks abomination or another, every day.
Changing your diet will have much greater bang for your bucks and much 'easier' to do.
I can't see the logic in declaring one side of an equilibrium equation to be secondary. Both sides are obviously of the same importance.
Walk uphill 400 metres altitude gain every day, and you will lose weight, yes. Run uphill 400m every day and you will lose even more. Carry a backpack, and ... you will put on muscle.
Walking or running on the flat, not so much.
[0]: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...
Yes exercise is very healthy, that has been proven, but loosing weight is mostly a matter of eating less, at least according to this (reputable) meta source. Apparently, over eating but not getting fat (which holds true for me), leads to other problems (also true for me, I have an autoimmune disorder).
Eat less to lose weight. Exercise more to be healthy.
(nice, got my first downvotes in less time it takes to watch 1/10th of my source ;))
There are a lot of pathological things we do regularly, not just overeat/eat the wrong things. They all contribute. Last I saw less exercise is more caused by obesity than the other way around. And sitting a lot can cause biomechanical maladoptions which makes movement (and in turn exercise) more inconvenient.
Weight seems to be almost exclusively about the calories you ingest. It has little to do with obesity causing less exercise or the other way around. There is not a swathe of pathological things we do that contribute. We eat too much.
I also found that surprising. You can exercise without changing your diet, but you won't loose (much) weight. You can sit at a desk and start eating less and loose a lot of weight.
It’s my mistake. The OP was maybe going on a tangent, then you have yours and I entered out of left field with mine. Too much talking past each other.
Exercising without changing your diet is seriously nontrivial for most people, due to compensatory eating - if you burn an extra 400 kCal, you will likely experience commensurate increase in appetite & eat an extra 400 kCal. It takes a lot of vigilance & discipline to avoid that.
IMO that's the 'real' reason diet is a more effective lever for weight loss than exercise. In theory, burning those extra 400 kCal thru exercise is just as effective for creating a caloric deficit as reducing daily consumption by 400 kCal, but in practice it still requires you to eat less than what feels normal/adequate.
It sounds paradoxical but I know people struggling with their weight and to them it must sounds like a very good explanation.
So perhaps first change your diet and don’t exercise? It’s less healthy but it’s more effective for weightloss.
It’s Kurzgesagt. It’s as much of a reliable source in general as the NY Post intern is a reliable source on astronomy. To me anyway.
You burn roughly as many calories walking as you do sleeping.
Sleeping burns 40-80 calories per hour, walking 200-350.
You're not gonna burn off any calories by walking.
> Sleeping burns 40-80 calories per hour, walking 200-350.
We must have different definitions of "roughly", that's an order of magnitude difference!
> You're not gonna burn off any calories by walking.
That's a very different claim (but still not true).
To be clear: walking is great exercise. No, you're not going to walk off a 10,000 calorie/day diet with it; you need to not eat that much. Nor are you going to look like you spend 3 hrs/day doing crossfit just by walking. But 10,000 steps per day is miles better than 500.