Does walking burn fat?

Sharon87

So you're going to ignore the fact that you need carbs to provide other essential nutrients? Fibre and B Vitamins?

Lunar_Eclipse

Ted_Hutchinson wrote: »

As I have repeatedly pointed out I am NOT against exercise as there is plenty of evidence pointing out the benefits for heart and brain health. The evidence to support it's use in Weight Loss is limited and poor and while it may make some difference to some people it should not be promoted as a first choice weight loss method as that will fail most people.

Well, the evidence is there. I had to check, despite my own success with exercise and weight loss since you sound very sure that the relationship is dubious. (I'm curious as to whether you have actually ever turned to a lot of exercise and seen what great things happen to your body actually. When I went to Summer swimming camp in the USA for only 6 weeks I lost 2 stone that I didn't really have to spare at the tender age of 13 for starters! Obviously I ate for Britain with all the training.)

Anyhow, lots of evidence from Goggle re: exercise assisting with weight loss. I read the 10 year study into the effects of diet & exercise on people's weight carried out by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and data from the American School of Physicians. The evidence is there.

Personally I think a very healthy but balanced diet with old fashioned portion sizes and lots of exercise is the way forward generally for the long term, but I am intelligent enough to know that lots of different methods trigger weight loss on an individual level. However I also don't know anyone who has managed to stick with an extreme diet in the long run.

So based on the research I have read and my own weight loss from exercise alone, I could paint an entirely different picture to yours. I just think most people are intelligent enough to do their own research and make their own decisions about what is best for them. And I don't really care beyond that!

Ted_Hutchinson

Sharon87 wrote: »

So you're going to ignore the fact that you need carbs to provide other essential nutrients? Fibre and B Vitamins?

As you know perfectly well I do eat some carbs every day because I eat above ground vegetables and fruit and nuts. I have no problems with fibre intake either.
Now can you explain how humans existed for hundreds of thousands of years before the invention of farming.
When we started farming and then had access to grains what happened to our health?
We became shorter and fatter.
So something about grains makes us fatter that we were and as our DNA would naturally be.
As we existed for far longer before grains so how did people manage to survive before we found ways of cultivating grain?
The world's healthiest foods has plenty of information on food sources for B vitamins and I really don't see there is any substance at all to your concern that low carbohydrate diets lead to shortages in B vitamins or fibre.

Ted_Hutchinson

Lunar_Eclipse wrote: »

Well, the evidence is there. I had to check, despite my own success with exercise and weight loss since you sound very sure that the relationship is dubious.

Well here is an example of my evidence
It shows that as UK men have between 1998 and 20006 increased the percentage meeting the governments exercise recommended targets the percentage that are obese continues to increase.
Just like in the U.S, the British are exercising more and getting fatter with each passing year.

I am not for one moment suggesting that exercise causes obesity but if your theory is correct then increasing amounts of exercise should lead to lower rates of obesity.

Now find me a study where they have taken a sizable population increased the amount of exercise that population participates in and then measured the results 2~3 years later?

The only studies I have found in school populations the results were very disappointing for those who take the simplistic view that exercise is all that is needed. What you fail to take into account is that for most people just thinking about exercise causes them to eat more.

superstylin

Walking is an excellent exercise for weight loss it seems. I recently started a job which means a LOT of walking, I'm eating more calories a day to maintain energy levels but have gone down two belt notches in only 2wks.