Diet or Exercise?
My Dr. said that I had
improved my health by more than 50%, all I did was lose some weight and
exercise some even losing five lbs. helps, I live in Fort Lauderdale.
An
Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure - Remember that machine that was
around in the ’60s—the one where you hooked a wide belt around your waist and
the mechanism jiggled the belt, supposedly to shake off fat?
How
about the Beverly Hills Diet, where you ate nothing but fruit for almost two
weeks and then used “combining” to keep certain foods from reacting with each
other? Or how about any of a hundred other crazy ideas that Americans gloom
onto like a fly on a trashcan?
Unfortunately,
Americans continue to search for the magic bullet—the one thing that will rid
them of unwanted fat with little or no effort, and diet and exercise fads play
into that desire. But one thing remains constant when all the fad dust has
settled back to basics is usually the best way.
But
which is more important, diet or exercise? The short answer is, of course, both
are important. But in the long run, regular exercise is the most important
factor for long-term success.
Writing
in weightlosscontrol.com, Conrad Theodore notes, “You can lose weight without
exercising. People do it all the time.”
But,
says nutritionist Bonnie Freedman, “The ones who manage to keep of lost weight
for at least a year are involved in a regular exercise program…a substantial
number of people who lose weight through diet alone gain it back after a year.”
However.
“If you’re truly interested in losing weight,” Theodore says, “you should
consider combining exercise with a program of caloric restriction, since you
may be surprised by the modest numbers of calories you actually burn in the
exercise you do.”
Scientists
at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and University of Texas, Galveston,
conducted a research study on 127 men and women who were at least 30.8 pounds.
They were assigned randomly to experimental design groups to examine the
effects of three cognitive-behavioral weight control interventions for adults -
diet only, exercise only, and thirdly, a combination of diet and exercise.
The
two-year study results suggest that dieting is associated with weight loss
followed by regain after treatment ends, whereas exercise alone produces
smaller weight losses but better maintenance.
Why?
Gale B. Carey, a nutritional biochemist at the University of New Hampshire,
demonstrated in 1994 that fat cells store excess calories until the muscles
need them. Exercise training makes fat cells more sensitive to hormones such as
adrenaline that tell them to release the fat. This process, called lipolysis,
shrinks the cells and reduces body fat. Adenosine, on the other hand, tells
cells to hold onto their fat. Exercise helps fat cells ignore adenosine.
Exercise-trained adipocytes have fewer receptor sites that can bind the hormone.
The
interesting part is that if you exercise without reducing your caloric intake,
or even overeat, adipocytes lose their ability to ignore adenosine. Carey’s
research on miniature swine suggests that dietary overindulgence attenuates the
effects of exercise. “For humans such overindulgences include inappropriate
food choices, a desire for self-reward after exercise and misjudgments about
the relative rates at which energy is expended or consumed,” Carey says.
So,
what does this mean? You guessed it. Eating a wide variety of foods, plenty of
fruits and vegetables, limiting processed carbohydrates and fats in combination
with regular exercise are the best ways to lose weight.
Until
we find that magic bullet.
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