There has been lots of controversy regarding “Fake News” and what constitutes “news” versus content with an agenda.

It seems that even The New York Times is subject to publishing stories that exclude information.

In an online article, called, “Why Exercise Alone May Not Be The Key To Weight Loss,” Gretchen Reynolds states,

“In recent years, study after study examining exercise and weight loss among people and animals has concluded that, by itself, exercise is not an effective way to drop pounds.

In most of these experiments, the participants lost far less weight than would have been expected, mathematically, given how many additional calories they were burning with their workouts.”

She then discusses research performed on mice, not humans.

Finally, she virtually guts the whole point of her article with a quote from one of the researchers -

“Mice will never be people, of course, so we cannot say whether the results of this and any follow-up experiments would directly apply to us", Dr. Lark says.

You see, exercise type matters...

This often ignored study published in the International Journal of Obesity discovered two things:

1. Steady-State Exercise (SSE), the kind of low to moderate intensity exercise often prescribed by health club staff and the government, is not your best weapon for fat loss. (But do keep in mind that if you're on a walk, it means you're not in the kitchen and it does WONDERS for mental health and stress relief). But as far as a "weight loss tool", it's not that great. And...

2. High-Intensity Intermittent Exercise (HIIE), demonstrated a “significant reduction in total body mass (TBM), fat mass (FM), trunk fat and fasting plasma insulin levels. There was significant fat loss in legs compared to arms in the HIIE group only.”

To recap, participants in the HIIE group saw:

​1. Weight loss
​2. Fat loss
​3. Trunk (stomach) fat loss
​4. Leg fat loss

It’s important to note the HIIE protocols used in this study were different from traditional High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT).

It’s this specific protocol, that led Professor Stephen Boucher to explain -
“This maybe unique to this type of exercise. We know it is very difficult to ‘spot reduce’ troublesome fat areas. When you do regular exercise, you tend to lose fat everywhere and you tend to look emaciated. Our results are unusual but were consistent across the women who performed the exercise.”

Here’s the unique thing about this study - there was no nutrition intervention.

That means the subjects did not change their diet.

And that means that these results were independent of the food the study participants were eating.

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Later tater,

Mikey