More Americans exercise, but they are still obese

No news here. Fitness Watch readers have known this one for years.

More Americans are exercising but rates of obesity and smoking have not changed, according to the latest government data.

A survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Wednesday finds obesity rates were frozen last year at around 28 percent of adults compared to 2008.

But 34.7 percent claimed in 2009 they engage in regular leisure physical activity, up from 31.9 percent in 2008.

Exercise is an idiot's game for weight loss.

Always has been and always will be.

Here are explanations of why and what you can do that will work: