Get Moving
Our resident scientist, Jen Wade, pointed me to this interesting study about weight. Jen Wade sums it up nicely: "They asked obese and lean volunteers to wear special underwear with motion sensors on it, and found that the lean people were much more active than their obese counterparts. They say different people have different natural activity levels, and that this is a major contributing factor to body weight."
The doctor in charge of the study has replaced his desk chair with a treadmill.
The doctor in charge of the study has replaced his desk chair with a treadmill.
posted by mo pie at 9:45 AM
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Man, I wish I could replace my office chair with a treadmill. 8 hours a day at 1 mph? I'd get in way more activity than I do right now, and without thinking about it.
Well, I couldn't sit still as a child, and I wasn't overweight then. I think it might be true for me.
About exercise in general: I think some people find it helps more than others. My mother never found exercising had much effect on her weight, but I've only ever managed to lose while taking regular vigorous exercise. The number of calories you burn doing the exercise is the whole story: you are also building lean muscle, which burns more calories even when you're sitting still. Certainly I am rubbish at dieting, but I'm still losing weight (slowly) and if it isn't the 3 gym visits a week that's doing it, then I don't know what it is!
Anyway, I would rather be fit than thin, if it came to a choice.
That should have read "The number of calories you burn is not the whole story".
I'm a fidgety, can't sit still, overweight person - not technically overweight right now, but I've never been naturally thin either, always on the threshold between "healthy weight" and "overweight". So I'm not sure about this theory.
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