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Trying to lose weight? Skip the gym
Taubes in "Good Calories, Bad Calories" discussed the issue of exercise being a poor factor in weight loss (for many people). Others have been speaking the same tune for some time, or at least make such claims.
Spam Mail from Doctor WC Douglas
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Trying to lose weight? Skip the gym
Dear Friend,
For a long time, I've been a voice in the wilderness on the issue of exercise. I've always been stunned that the "work out" fad that kicked in back in the 70s has hung on for so long. Most exercise programs are a waste of time, largely because most of the people who start a work out program rarely lose weight.
Finally, I have some company here in the wilderness: Susan B. Roberts, a nutritionist from Tufts University in Boston and author of The Instinct Diet. Roberts says that in spite of what you see on those gym commercials, there's not a lot of evidence to support the idea that an exercise program is the True Path to weight loss.
Roberts and her team examined exercise and weight studies published between 1969 and 2005, and found that, on average, a one-hour-per-day exercise program will only result in a weight loss of about six pounds over several months.
Not much, right? And yet for years, we've all been getting a heavy guilt trip (especially from the $4.7 billion-per-year fitness industry) that we need to get our butts off the couch and into the gym. But statistics that I've pointed out to you over the years show that in an average year, millions of exercise fanatics that work out actually end up working themselves in to the emergency room.
"Feel free to kill yourself in the gym if it makes you feel good," Roberts says. "But it isn't essential, and by itself doesn't do much. All the evidence suggests that exercise is less important than what goes in your mouth, and when."
Roberts claims that 85 percent of the people who've participated in her no-exercise weight loss program lost between 10 and 50 pounds without touching a dumb bell or stepping on a treadmill – and they kept the weight off for at least a year.
If you're trying to shed a few pounds, just do what I've been telling you to do all along. Eat more protein, cut out the sugar and carbs, and you'll drop those extra inches in no time. No gym necessary.
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