Exercise By Itself Can Result In Weight Loss,

reports in its “Well” blog on a study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, finding that exercise, “by itself”, can help overweight men and women to lose weight. The study included “31 overweight, sedentary men and women.” The participants were divided into two groups with the first “walking briskly five times a week on a treadmill until they had burned 300 calories,” and the second “working out for twice as long, burning 600 calories per session.” Participants were asked “not to change their diets or lifestyles.” Four months later, those in the first group “turned out to have lost little if any body fat,” while those in the second group “were thinner” with 12 having “shed at least 5 percent of their body fat.” Both groups were found to have compensated for their exercise by adding back about 1,000 calories through eating or reduced activity. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/well/exercise-may-aid-in-weight-loss-provided-you-do-enough.html