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Study: Exercise Won't Cure Obesity

Exercise, the bodily or mental exertion, esp. for the sake of training or improvement of health.


You may wonder why even when you exercise often, you still have a layer of fat all around you.
Sure, exercise strengthens your bones and muscles, improves health and mood, lowers blood pressure, improves cholesterol, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, breast cancner, and colon cancer, and improves kids' academic performance (probably why we have PE everyday), but it doesn't cure all for obesity.
Diet plays the key role.
For example, on an average, African-American women in Chicago weigh 184 lbs and Nigerian women weigh 127 lbs. Why have results shown up as this? Nigerian diet is high in fiber and carbs, low in fat and animal protien. Whereas, Chicago diet is 40-45% higher in processed foods.
"Decreased physical activity may not be the primary driver of the obesity epidemic," said Loyola nutritionist Amy Luke, a member of the study team. It's a burn more eat more world out there. When people burns more calories, they "compensenate" by eating more. Losing weight is more unlikely without dietry restraint.
In my opinion, choose the right decisions. Instead of having Cheez-It's, grab a banana, make something homemade at home from one of your grandparents' recipes as an alternative from eating out. Who knows what those fast foods/restuarants put in their food? A tasty but healthy drink is a blender-made strawberry-banana smoothie. I love those!
This doesn't mean you shouldn't exercise, it's important for a healthy and well-toned body.
Just because you are "chubby" doesn't mean that you are fat or obese. Who doesn't have fat on themself? It's important to have some fat and maintain that fat, and not become too skinny or too big.

Imformation was taken from http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090106/sc_livescience/studyexercisewontcureobesity;_ylt=Aqgb6mZCKxF3ghgWyKOAuezVJRIF


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