I have been reaping the benefits of rigorous sports and workouts in my life. This morning a CNN news pop-up on my smart phone startled me, when I read that "Why exercise won't make you lose weight?"
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2018/12/14/exercise-weight-loss-orig-st.cnn
In your opinion and per your experience, why is diet more important than exercise? Do you believe the it is true?
Dear Dr. Gulzar,
You are always distinguished in choosing the discussion's topic.
Yes, diet is more important than exercise for weight loss due to many factors including:
● Studies have proven that exercise alone cannot drive significant weight loss.
● Exercise increases your appetite.
● An increase in physical activity has not countered rising obesity levels.
● Food is the fuel source that drives exercise.
● The mechanics of weight loss restrict the effectiveness of exercise.
Best regards
Rama
Ref.
https://www.lifehack.org/363322/6-reasons-why-diet-more-important-than-exercising-for-weight-loss
One reason: an average person burn roughly 300 calories per day through exercise. A serving of french fries alone contains 365 calories; you do the math.
Therefore, cutting on unhealthy calories and eating healthy, low-calorie diet is more important. Professional athletes are an exception who may lose much higher calorie-count.
يعد النظام الغذائي اكثر أهمية من فقدان الوزن لأنه سوف يكسبك عادات صحية سليمة اي اسلوب حياة وليس مجرد هدف وقتي بفقدان الوزن
Dieting is more important than weight loss because it will gain you healthy habits, a healthy lifestyle and not just a goal of losing weight
Dear Dr. Gulzar,
You are always distinguished in choosing the discussion's topic.
Yes, diet is more important than exercise for weight loss due to many factors including:
● Studies have proven that exercise alone cannot drive significant weight loss.
● Exercise increases your appetite.
● An increase in physical activity has not countered rising obesity levels.
● Food is the fuel source that drives exercise.
● The mechanics of weight loss restrict the effectiveness of exercise.
Best regards
Rama
Ref.
https://www.lifehack.org/363322/6-reasons-why-diet-more-important-than-exercising-for-weight-loss
Yes i agree. Diet is more important than exercise for weight loss.
https://www.sweetdefeat.com/blog/why-diet-is-more-important-than-exercise-for-weight-loss/
An organized diet helps in weight loss gradually better than weight loss quickly through sports.
Dear Rama I. Ali your answers are always very informative and right on the money. Thanks for the kind words.
Dears Merana Ali Khan , Wahag Abass , Khansaa Azeez Obayes Al-Husseini , thank you for sharing your perspectives.
It is true to lose weight, eating less is far more important than exercising. As studies have found that exercise alone cannot drive significant weight loss. Also exercise increases appetite and an increase in physical activity has not opposed rising obesity levels
My experience can prove it! :-) I lost my weight a lot by drinking a cabbage juice every dinner time. When I excercised 30 min 2-3 times per week without a diet control, nothing had been changed.
From my experience, one should observe both diet and physical exercise for wieght loss.
Because of my diabetes; I am on low-carb diet since 2004. My weight went down from 92 to 78 kg. I do not excercise but walk a lot.
Dear ; Claire Su-Yeon Park , Lamia Al-Naama , Muhammad Faheem Jan ; thank you all colleagues for sharing your thoughts and helping this discussion string to grow.
Both diet and physical exercise for loss of weight . In order to lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit, meaning that your body is burning more calories each day than it is taking in. ... If you want to lose a pound a week, that means running a deficit of about 500 calories each day. Why exercise isn't that effective at helping your lose weight. Important in weight loss and maintenance and in providing the human body with the fuel it needs to survive. Exercise or regular physical activity pro- vides many more benefits than nutrition alone. ... Exercise can decrease your risk of depression, reduce stress, and keep your critical thinking skills sharp.
@ Dr. Zin Eddine Dadach, walking, in my opinion, is the best exercise and the most effective one. Keep it up!
Caloric restriction is the fundamental premise of every successful weight loss strategy, whether that is achieved by lowering fat or carbohydrate, fasting, or using meal replacements. Everything is relative, and the best diet ultimately is the one you can stick to long enough to achieve the weight loss goals
that you desire.
Article Is There an Optimal Diet for Weight Management and Metabolic Health?
Equinox is the solution, and deprivations based on depriving the self are completely unsuccessful even though they can lose weight during the first periods. Starving yourself will prevent you from getting what you need from essential food items and later you will gain the weight you lost when your body asks you to eat foods and lose the willpower.
Currently, low-carbohydrate diets provide the fastest results, but are difficult to adhere to. So you have to find a balance between the amount of carbohydrates you consume with vegetables, fruits and proteins.
- Yes certainly, that is what experts says Dr. Zin Eddine Dadach , walking is considered a best exervise. Thank you Dr. Dawood Mahdi for pointing it out.
Both of them are working tigether in a two parallel lines with the same effect ratio on human body.
I think the big issue is how to accelerate the rate of metabolism (enzymes that aids in catabolism and anabolism). Uptaking diets with less free radicals chemicals content and regular consumption of organic food with high antioxidants supplies, could help in reducing body weight. Lifestyle, psychological and environmental stresses, also could have the impacts to effect on these parameters.
Ziad Shraideh
People believe they can exercise for an hour, during which they would burn about 300-400 calories, then eat a 700-calorie meal and lose weight. Exercise should be incorporated to be part of a healthy lifestyle to improve lung/heart function, endurance, strength, mobility, etc., but not to lose weight.
I am a living example of this question. Diet is the determining factor to lose weight, if you incorporate exercise, you can accelerate loosing weight while maintaing proper function of heart, lungs and muscles.
Both diet and exercise is important to be fit and healthy. We cannot single out only one for weight loss.
I think so. Follow this link, hope be useful:
https://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(15)00439-0/pdf
Good question and useful discussion, Adopting healthy eating habits, fixing proper eating dates, appropriate sports for a lifetime, healthy food, Organize weekly trips in nature, avoiding prolonged sitting addiction, (TV, computer ...) leads to avoid the need for regimens
I am with you Dr Shah for this discussion that Diet is Most important than Exercise for weight loss. Diet is also Major contributing factor for people getting Heart Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus. Heavy Oily Food or Junk food, Cakes And Sweet Drinks are major causes of Diseases. Bad Diet and Exercise doesnot go with each other. Regards
Both of them are important and interrelated. But according to me, sports exercises are more effective than diet.
Liqaa
Emad Kamil Hussein , Zainab A Makawi , thank you for sharing your perspectives.
Yes diet food is more important for loses of weight because it has direct affect for body.
Dear colleagues, Ahmed Abdulkarim Alzbeede , Mohammed Mahmood Mohammed
, Mohammad Mehdizadeh , Houda Kawas , thank you for sharing your thoughts.
"Our bodies need enough energy to work efficiently and to use them in different sports and activities, so we need more fuel, not less, and it is very difficult to exercise very physically when the body does not get enough Food and energy, it will then resemble a car that goes with half the amount of fuel it needs to get to a certain place. " This means exercise and proper nutrition(BOTH)are the two guarantors of weight loss.
Regular diet helps the body to lose weight gradually and make it more healthy and active and free from diseases, in addition to exercise from time to time.
Dear Ahsan Siddiqui , Wahag Abass , thanks for you congratulations to this discussion.
Dear Nirmala S.V.S.G
, thank you for valuable additions to this debate.GS
Diet more important than exercise for weight loss
1. Exercise alone cannot drive significant weight loss
2. Exercise increases your appetite
3. An increase in physical activity has not countered rising obesity levels
4. Food is the fuel source that drives exercise
5. Short-term weight loss is also driven by diet
6. The mechanics of weight loss restrict the effectiveness of exercise
Diet can help you to reduce your body weight by reducing you carbohydrate and fat intake and some light exercise
Nirmala S.V.S.G
, Nadeem Ahmad Khan , thank you for sharing your insights.
You got to count the calories !
If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight ! It’s as simple as that.
Dear Salem Elsheltat , and Alaa Raheem Kazim thank you for valuable contribution on weight loss and fitness.
Definitely.
My Lipid Profile and blood sugar level drastically improved with change of diet.
(Removed oils/ oil seeds etc. from diet, no meat/ meat product/, no curry, no fried food, eating of lemon and other fruits, vegetables much more, leaving sugar and all beverages etc.).
Thanks.
Exercise which followed by eating high amount of food not reduce body weight, but decrease in food intake without exercise can reduce it.
I agree with Mr. Rajaa A. Hussein both of them are work together to get the best results.
If I had to pick only one for my health (diet versus exercise) I would pick diet because if I exercise but have a lousy diet I could still be overweight, have heart disease, diabetes etc. True, excercise elps mitigate these problems but hard to overcome a bad diet.
However, if I have a good diet (such as the Mediterranean diet) but not exercise, I still have a chance of greatly improving, if not eliminating, these chronic diseases.
Of course, it is best to do both: eat a good diet and exercise but in my humble opinion, diet is the most important. Thank you.
I think we can find evidence that support both ways of loosing weight (through exercise or diet), however, in my daily practice and through out my years of experience, I've learned there's no better method to achieve a healthy weight than both combined. People that turn only to healthy eating habits can achieve some weight loss, but probably wont loose any fat mass. That´s why I think that maybe it´s important to discuss weather diet or exercise affects body composition more than weight itself.
“If you are looking to lose weight, then it is imperative to keep a check on your health and plan realistic goals for yourself. In order to lose weight in a healthy way, the first step is to set realistic goals that you can achieve easily in the weeks to come. If the findings of a latest study are to be believed, then our diet is far more important than exercises like swimming, jogging and cycling. According to health experts, muscle training or weight lifting increases appetite that can ultimately sabotage the best of intentions. People who aim to lose 1 or 2 kilos in a week are more successful at keeping their routine on. As per health experts and dietitians around the world, about 10 percent of our calories are burned digesting the food we eat, and we lose about 20 percent to 30 percent while exercising.”
https://www.ndtv.com/food/diet-is-more-important-than-exercise-to-lose-weight-diet-tips-to-shed-kilos-1974498
Dr Dwajani S , Shibabrata Pattanayak , I greatly appreciate your participation in and contributions to this discussion. Regards!
Dear Carine Temegne Nono ,
I greatly appreciate your participation in and contributions to this discussion. Thanks.
Diet does not only help us losing weight but also to have a stronger immumity system to protect us from many sicknesses.
Dear Zin Eddine Dadach , Dawood Mahdi , your additions to this discussion are precious.
Dear Bashar Owaid , Danielle Monahan , thank you for sharing your insights.
Dear Shah,
According to health experts, muscle training or weight lifting increases appetite that can ultimately sabotage the best of intentions. People who aim to lose 1 or 2 kilos in a week are more successful at keeping their routine on. As per health experts and dietitians around the world, about 10 percent of our calories are burned digesting the food we eat, and we lose about 20 percent to 30 percent while exercising.
The causes of upper belly fat, or upper abdominal fat, are in most cases proportional to our lifestyle choices. For some, the reasons could be based in genetics or even hormonal fluctuations. One must consider a holistic approach that targets all these elements to change their body and achieve their desired fitness goals.
Regards
Diet Is More Important than Exercising for Weight Loss because of following reasons: Exercise increases your appetite; An increase in physical activity has not countered rising obesity levels; Food is the fuel source that drives exercise; Short-term weight loss is also driven by diet. The mechanics of weight loss restrict the effectiveness of exercise etc.
In my opinion and per my experience, diet, diet and diet is most important than anything for weight loss.
Afkar Hadi , Sadanand Pandey thank you colleagues for participating in this discussion discussion.
I think diet is usful alongside exercise for weight loss. Exercise can accelerate fat burning . Of course we shouldn't eat or drink any kind of food or some beverages within short time after excercise. In this case, our body is forced to burn fat to acquire calorie. So, we will be slimmer.
Dear colleagues, thank you for your valuable posts, Alan Saleem , Mousa Khosravani .
Intermittent fasting may be more effective (or important) than a diet or an exercise. What Is Intermittent Fasting And Is It Actually Good For You?: http://time.com/5354498/is-intermittent-fasting-healthy/
Absolutely right. Fasting has important role in our health. It can improve the functions of internal organs such as liver and endocrine glands. On the other hand, exercise has influence on apperance. Although, exercise affect organ function, obesity or overweight are more affected by exercise. In general, exercise affect physical fitness and fasting has deeply influence on human body functions.
FYI: conclusion highlighted towards the end--quote from Dr. Borg (endocrinologist):
NEWS PROVIDED BY Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Dec 10, 2018, 09:27 ET TUCSON, Ariz., Dec 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Body weight is not a simple matter of "energy in minus energy out," writes endocrinologist Hermann Borg, M.D., in the winter issue of in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Thus, exercise programs do not work as the main strategy for weight loss. Dr. Borg debunks the "Paleo myth" that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the Paleolithic era was optimal for human health. Isolated people who still live in a similar way, such as the Hadza tribe in Africa, are slim because they do not overeat. Although they are physically very active, their energy expenditure is not different from 21st century city dwellers, because of the body's mechanisms for constraining energy expenditure. The Hadzas burn the same number of calories as Americans: they are more active but have a lower basal metabolic rate and lower non-exercise activity thermogenesis. Beliefs about the Paleo diet being low in simple sugars may be erroneous, Dr. Borg writes. Hunter-gatherers may consume more than one or two liters of honey per day. Although its effect on obesity is modest, exercise has many health benefits, which Dr. Borg explains. Moderate exercise increases insulin sensitivity, helps prevent cardiovascular disease, improves executive function, and decreases the risk of certain cancers. He also details the risks of excessive exercise, including the Alzheimer dementia paradox and the elite athlete paradox. "Despite all the benefits of exercise, one cannot outrun the bad diet," Dr. Borg concludes. "Diet and exercise are different tools for different jobs." The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943. SOURCE Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
Dear @Daniel Monahan thank you for sharing the published research and the conclusion: ”Despite all the benefits of exercise, one cannot outrun the bad diet," Dr. Borg concludes”
Yes, because control of diet and healthy food is the best way to control weight loss.
Please have a look at these useful links
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/weight-loss/a755115/the-14-best-exercises-for-weight-loss/
https://food.ndtv.com/fitness/weight-loss-exercises-9-ways-to-shed-the-weight-1230144
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENfevT4wco
But if we perform both diet and exercise, the fat will be burned faster
As an exercise scientist I must admit that diet has a more significant impact on body composition than exercise. It is true that physical activity can increase the basal metabolic rate and allows us to burn a few calories here and there. However, diets based on real food combined with short fasting periods have had the biggest impact on weight of my athletes Gulzar Shah
It is like working with one hand only and not using other.
to complete the circle you need to have both.
Only diet work when a person is sick.
Exercise promote metabolic utilization of diet
I think both are important for weight loss. However, some people get benefited from diet more than exercise, and other people are the other way round.
Thank you colleagues, for your posts and value additions to this discussion: Emad Kamil Hussein , Dawood Mahdi , Luay Abdulwahid Shihab , Anjana Agarwal , Sebastian Sitko .
Diet is very important to control weight. Exercise helps but what is your diet? Starch-rich an sugar-rich foods (some people call them useless foods) add a lot of weight.
Doing exercise without proper diet is like eating fat and trying to burn-out fat. Bad routine.
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