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Originally Posted by Wild Vulpix
I think this is why this article makes me angry the most. I was (am?) the type of girl to look for any excuse to not exercise. And now that I am, and I go and read something like this... I start losing focus on what the point is if it's as unhelpful (and even a bit dangerous) as this guy points out.
Not that one measly little article will make me stop though.
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YES. This is what makes me a little upset. I'm not saying the article should lie and say that exercise helps you lose weight when it doesn't, but it seems to be giving people the excuse to not exercise, because experts are saying that it won't help. And although it does say there are other benefits to exercise, it's not really emphasizing that, and is rather talking about eating a bunch of unhealthy things after exercising.
But it seems to lose sight of the fact that basically what he is talking about in the article is caloric input > caloric output, and that's what makes people gain weight, not the exercising part. We shouldn't be blaming exercising as the culprit for not losing weight.
Do these kind of articles do more harm than good? I dunno. Not that I'm advocating censoring AT ALL, but realistically, what is the practicality in this?
And finally, an issue that I take wit this is that they say gym membership has gone up while obesity has climbed as well. Okay. Well, those numbers look to be damning, but TRULY, how many obese people are gym members? When I go to the gym, I see very few - some chubby, yes, but obese? Little to none. So . . . again, how statistics can be used to prove almost anything.
Alright, I'm off to do P90X.