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Originally Posted by Seejay
Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint and "Primal Body Primal Mind" by Gedgaudas both talk about using the right kind of exercise at the right times to manage how your body partitions and uses food.
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I don't know. Everyone's got a book to sell.
This from an article by Taubes:
"Meanwhile, the evidence simply never came around to support Mayer’s hypothesis [that physical activity would lead to weight loss], even though our beliefs did. My favorite study of the effect of physical activity on weight loss was published in 1989 by a team of Danish researchers. Over the course of eighteen months the Danes trained nonathletes to run a marathon. At the end of this training period, the eighteen men in the study had lost an average of five pounds of body fat. As for the nine women subjects, the Danes reported, 'no change in body composition was observed.' That same year, F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, then director of the St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Obesity Research Center in New York, reviewed the studies on exercise and weight, and his conclusion was identical to that of the Finnish review’s eleven years later: 'Decreases, increases, and no changes in body weight and body composition have been observed,' Pi-Sunyer reported."
http://nymag.com/news/sports/38001/index3.html
Note that some people
gained weight. My experience has always been that I neither gain nor lose. I've had a variety of exercise routines over the years, aerobic and anaerobic, at all different weights, slim to obese. Never saw my weight rise or fall as a result of exercise.
The only thing I haven't tried is an exercise program
along with a low-carb diet.
I'm keeping an open, but highly sceptical, mind on the subject.