It’s common knowledge that to be healthy and to lose weight, you have to exercise. You have to do aerobic exercise like walking, running, cycling, etc. to burn fat and build endurance. YOu have to lift weight or do some kind of muscular, anaerobic exercise to build and maintain your muscle mass. But there are some notable medical experts that think exercise, in the traditional sense, is not needed to stay fit and healthy. What you eat is the most important thing.
Dr. William Campbell Douglass is a doctor I follow regularly for his insightful opinions on the current state of medicine. He thinks most mainstream medicine is bollocks. He advocates an Atkins-style high-protein, high fat diet. But he also states that exercise is not a factor in weight loss. What you eat is everything.
Here is Dr. Douglass’s entire
piece:
It’s always fun watching the mainstream media hem, haw, backtrack and make excuses whenever it’s forced to admit that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss.
Take a recent New York Times article, which to my shock actually reported on the latest studies saying that treadmill torture won’t help you lose weight. But surprise, surprise…By the end of that article, they were still busy inventing bizarre new reasons to drown yourself in sweat.
I guess they don’t want to lose revenue from all those gym ads.
A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine followed 58 obese people who exercised for 12 weeks but didn’t change the eating habits that got them in the study in the first place.
The average fatty lost 7 pounds… but many lost just half that.
Practically speaking, they may as well have lost nothing at all. There’s really no difference between someone who weighs 303 pounds and someone who weights 310 pounds. If they had simply tried sticking to a sensible diet free of sugar and other carbs, they’d have lost some real weight by week 12 – without ever breaking a sweat.
Now that the fat cat’s out of the gym bag, the fitness barons are scrambling to come up with new bogus reasons for you to risk your life and wallet in their overpriced and dangerous dungeons.
My favorite is “an acute exercise-induced increase in positive mood.”
I’ll tell you what puts me in a positive mood: Not exercising. And if you walk by the gym and see all those miserable, grimacing hamsters stumbling on treadmills and rolling off exercise balls, I don’t think “positive mood” is the first phrase that’ll come to mind.
Another of these supposed benefits is “increased aerobic capacity.” In other words, exercise makes you better able to do more exercise.
Still one more – they claim that once you lose the weight WITHOUT hitting the gym, exercise can help keep it off.
Trust me on this one – if you can lose weight through diet alone, you can keep it off through diet alone.
I haven’t been in a gym in years. I didn’t want to spend the high prices to join. I like to exercise by walking and doing a short, intense 10-minute bodyweight routine. In fact, I love to walk. If I don’t have to drive, I’ll walk. I’ll try anything not to drive and walk where I need to go.
Dr. Douglass doesn’t say to be inactive, he just says you don’t have to exercise in the traditional manner, i.e. joining a gym, doing hours of aerobic exercise or lifting heavy weights. He advocates just being active. Move your body. Don’t sit in front of the TV all day long. What you is is the most important thing. I follow his advice and eat a low-carb, high protein diet. I’ve dropped two pant sizes already and I feel fantastic. All I do for “exercise” is walk.
Draw your own conclusions. If you like to exercise, then stick with it, but give Dr. Douglass’s advice some serious thought. I recommend subscribe to Dr. Douglass’s free
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