Discussion of Workouts and Weight Loss from Scientific American Magazine
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2017-02-28

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Today we will discuss the truth about the relationship between exercise, diet and weight loss. This discussion is based on an article in Scientific American by a social scientist (not a doctor of medicine) who uses a medical test to determine the difference or similarity between true African hunter gatherers, and modern men to answer the questions: 1) Is there a difference between these two groups in how we burn calories and lose or gain weight, 2) has man adapted physically or socially to provide necessary methods to survive? and, 3) does the physical activity that man does cause him to lose weight or is it just diet? Because I have exposure to modern man and woman every day, I have the advantage of looking through this article and deciding whether it actually represents what modern man experiences when he or she is trying to lose weight.  I do this with every study I read, and I found in this study that it does not jive with real life.  The assertion that exercise does not change our weight is flawed when applied to real life.  

We will explore the research done in this article that looks at two different social groups in regard to weight loss and exercise. Common sense would suggest that the more you exercise the more weight you will lose. This article says that’s not true. Their final statements say that exercise can help you lose weight up to a given point and then you hit a plateau,  and even if you exercise more and more you do not lose any more weight. That is not true in modern life, and is simply not true in my practice of medicine.