Calculating The Caloric Cost Of Your Christmas Cheer

An article not valuable for the holiday thing. Valuable for its assessment of "exercise" as a means to lose weight. However, its recommendations are wrong.

"'The National Physical Activity Guidelines for adults in Australia recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity (including brisk walking) on most days of the week.

'Unfortunately this advice is not enough to prevent obesity so if you over-indulge at Christmas you will have to walk for longer and at a quicker pace to get rid of the extra energy you have eaten.

'Basically we need to aim to expend 2000 calories or six to seven hours of exercise per week in addition to our usual daily activities to achieve effective weight-loss.'

Professor Byrne said the data helped demonstrate people should not expect marked weight loss in a short time."

Realizing that "exercise" is a terribly inefficient way to control weight is a good first step. But then the guy trips.

You have to be a moron to spend 6-7 hours per week exercising for weight loss when you can spend zero hours per week losing weight by having caloric intake control.

Exercise is and never has been a good means to weight loss.

Calories in vs. Calories out is for weight loss.

Training, a very special form of physical activity, is how you distribute that weight by either adding muscle or losing fat.

Any other conceptual approach leads to where we are today - abject failures.