Health Tips - Calories and Exercise

Friday, December 11, 2009

No matter how hard you exercise you will never bring down your weight substantially by exercising alone. You must jog for a mile or walk hard for four miles to be able to eliminate the effect of only one slice of bread. This gives you can idea of what little effect exercise can have for bringing down weight. A professor at the University of Michigan had to treat a patient who weighed 570 pounds. The patient was put in a hospital room and fed mainly on lettuce – nothing else. The patient took no exercise. In a relatively short time his weight came down to 170 pounds. This just goes to show the very close relationship between being overweight and the food one eats. The only way in which one can reduce effectively is to control one’s diet. The calories which one takes in by way of food must be less than the calories which one expends by way of movement and exercise.