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iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:23 am	Post subject: Lack of exercise and obesity What do you think about the correlation between lack of exercise and obesity?


bluenoser Joined: 18 May 2006 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:02 pm	Post subject: Now I doubt that there is as great a cooelation between excercise and obesity. For example, people bodies react differently to excericse. Yes the initial fat burn is similar to everyone, but the metabolic speedup differs. For some doing a bit of excercise speeds up their metabolism and it stays up to burn much more fat, compared to others.

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:57 pm	Post subject: bluenoser wrote: Now I doubt that there is as great a cooelation between excercise and obesity. For example, people bodies react differently to excericse. Yes the initial fat burn is similar to everyone, but the metabolic speedup differs. For some doing a bit of excercise speeds up their metabolism and it stays up to burn much more fat, compared to others. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I often hear and read that most Americans are over-weight because they don't exercise. True to a certain extent, but it's not like Europeans and Asians are running around everyday. I certainly don't suggest that exercise is meaningless, but I'm not so sure if it's the major contributor of obesity.

bluenoser Joined: 18 May 2006 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:42 pm	Post subject: Exactly, the equation is simple you eat too many calories you get fat. Excercise just burns calories so you can eat more. Also there are a lot of other good side effects of get an hour or two of activity 3-4 days a week, like lookign good, having more energy, sleeping better, etc. But I think that what you eat has more impact on being fat than whether or not you excercise.

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:18 pm	Post subject: bluenoser wrote: But I think that what you eat has more impact on being fat than whether or not you excercise. This is my wild guess, but I get the impression that many American corporate executives spend a fair amount of time exercising. My old boss actually spent a fair amount of time exercising. But I'm afraid that many of them are overweight, though they may not be obese (and my old boss was a bit overweight). I don't think that people around the world exercise like them with the exception of athletes and those who love exercising and playing sports, yet statistically speaking, they aren't exactly fat, overweight or obese. High percept of American corporate executives are overweight despite the fact that they exercise. What does it tell? It's got to be diet.

Camron Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:47 am	Post subject: Lack of exercise is definitely a problem for obeistity. Actually to be honest, I don't exersise that much yet I am not really fat at all. I think it all has to do with metabolism.

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iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 5:23 am

Post subject: Lack of exercise and obesity

What do you think about the correlation between lack of exercise and obesity?

bluenoser

Joined: 18 May 2006

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:02 pm

Post subject:

Now I doubt that there is as great a cooelation between excercise and obesity. For example, people bodies react differently to excericse. Yes the initial fat burn is similar to everyone, but the metabolic speedup differs.

For some doing a bit of excercise speeds up their metabolism and it stays up to burn much more fat, compared to others.

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:57 pm

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bluenoser wrote:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I often hear and read that most Americans are over-weight because they don't exercise. True to a certain extent, but it's not like Europeans and Asians are running around everyday. I certainly don't suggest that exercise is meaningless, but I'm not so sure if it's the major contributor of obesity.

bluenoser

Joined: 18 May 2006

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:42 pm

Post subject:

Exactly, the equation is simple you eat too many calories you get fat.

Excercise just burns calories so you can eat more.

Also there are a lot of other good side effects of get an hour or two of activity 3-4 days a week, like lookign good, having more energy, sleeping better, etc.

But I think that what you eat has more impact on being fat than whether or not you excercise.

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:18 pm

Post subject:

bluenoser wrote:

But I think that what you eat has more impact on being fat than whether or not you excercise.

This is my wild guess, but I get the impression that many American corporate executives spend a fair amount of time exercising. My old boss actually spent a fair amount of time exercising. But I'm afraid that many of them are overweight, though they may not be obese (and my old boss was a bit overweight). I don't think that people around the world exercise like them with the exception of athletes and those who love exercising and playing sports, yet statistically speaking, they aren't exactly fat, overweight or obese. High percept of American corporate executives are overweight despite the fact that they exercise. What does it tell? It's got to be diet.

Camron

Joined: 15 Aug 2007

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:47 am

Post subject:

Lack of exercise is definitely a problem for obeistity. Actually to be honest, I don't exersise that much yet I am not really fat at all. I think it all has to do with metabolism.

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