Exercise Will Not Help Weight Loss

[From article]
A team of British cardiologists have said it's time to "bust the myth" that regular exercise tackles obesity.
The strongly-worded editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, published in the May edition of the journal, says you can't outrun a bad diet and that although regular exercise reduces the risk of developing a number of health issues such as heart disease, dementia, some cancers and type 2 diabetes, it doesn't promote weight loss unless it is paired with dietary changes.

http://mashable.com/2015/04/23/obesity-exercise-uk-study/

You can't 'outrun' obesity: Study says exercise doesn't help weight loss
Blathnaid Healy
April 23, 2015

Cold Way To Lose Weight

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During the swimmer Michael Phelps’s 2008 Olympic gold-medal streak, Cronise heard the widely circulated claim that Phelps was eating 12,000 calories a day. Having been fastidiously trying to lose weight, he was incredulous. Phelps’s intake was more than five times what the average American eats daily, and many thousands of calories more than what most elite athletes in training need. Running a marathon burns only about 2,500 calories. Phelps would have to be aggressively swimming during every waking hour to keep from gaining weight. But then Cronise—who knows enough about heat transfer to have been employed keeping astronauts alive in the sub-zero depths of space—figured it out: Phelps must be burning extra calories simply by being immersed in cool water.
Seven million years of evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold.
Fascinated, Cronise began a regimen of cold showers and shirtless walks in winter, and he lost 26.7 pounds in six weeks.
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Many of us live almost constantly, year-round, in 70-something-degree environments. And when we are caught somewhere colder than that, most of us quickly put on a sweater or turn up the thermostat.
In that sense, we don’t really experience seasonal variations in temperature the way our ancestors did.
[. . .]
Cronise, Bremer, and Sinclair propose what they call the “Metabolic Winter” hypothesis: that obesity is only in small part due to lack of exercise, and mostly due to a combination of chronic overnutrition and chronic warmth. Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/?single_page=true

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
The Benefits of Being Cold
Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health.
JAMES HAMBLIN
DEC 28 2014, 7:44 PM ET

Overweight Men More Likely To Develop Prostate Cancer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2208215/Obese-overweight-people-likely-develop-prostate-cancer.html

Overweight men 'more likely to develop prostate cancer because fat provides favourable environment for disease'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:12 EST, 25 September 2012 | UPDATED: 00:12 EST, 25 September 2012

New Thoughts on Old Advice on Losing Weight

Converted: Michael Mosley believes fasting can 'extend my healthy years' and is sticking with the regime. Mosley is the host of a PBS feature about Pleasure and Pain.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2183677/Why-starvation-diet-actually-good--make-live-longer.html

Warning: This article tells you a starvation diet could actually be good for you - and make you live longer
By VICTORIA FLETCHER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:23 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 16:23 EST, 4 August 2012

Weight Watchers Overweight


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/6990753/Weight-Watchers-clinic-floor-collapses-under-dieters.html

Weight Watchers clinic floor collapses under dieters
The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Sweden collapsed beneath a group of 20 members of the weight loss programme who were gathered for a meeting.
Telegraph (UK)
Published: 7:35PM GMT 14 Jan 2010