The advantages of diets and regular exercise

Nowadays one of the major problems conserning our sociaty worldwise is obesity. It is sad, but obesity is becoming more and more difficult to fight with while it continues to spread around the globe. This is because obesity can only be fought by watching your diet and exercising. And here comes the excuse we often use “our busy lifestyle”. We choose unhealthy foods from fast-food restaurants because it’s easier than cooking, and it saves time. That is why we do not work out, No Time! But, if you had time for only one of these weight loss approaches, which one are you going to choose? Diet or Working out?

No matter what you are going to read the answer depends on you. First you should ask yourself, what is it that you’re trying to achieve? Are you only interested in the quickest way to lose weight, or you want to achieve a healthy lifestyle? Watching after your diet has to be enought if your target is to lose weight, only. And you have to start exercising, or doing both diet and exercises if you aiming to improve the quality of your life and live a healthy life.

The Bennefits of Dieting

In a twelve-week long study done over a decade ago (year 2000), scientists compared the weight loss progress of people on “diet only” programs to people on “exercise only” programs. The overweight women in “diet only” program lost 5.5kg (12.12 lbs) and men lost 8.4kg (18.51 lbs). This was accomplished by reducing the caloric consumption of women by an average of 945 kilocalories per day and men by 1705 kilocalories per day.

On the other hand, in “exercise only” group, women lost 0.6 kg (1.32 lbs) and men lost 0.3 kg (0.66 lbs). This group of people had been performing jogging and walking 5 days a week for 30 minutes a day. The results showed that a man burned around 255 kcal while woman burned around 190 kcal per session.

Women in this program lost about 2% of their body fat, while women in “diet only” program lost about 6% of their body fat. The men riched different results that the women, the males in “exercise only” program didn’t see any significant change, while the men in “diet only” program lost about 5% of their body fat. The resuts are clear – eating low calorie diet in much more efficient way for losing body fat.

Exercising for better life:

Don’t let the above study to ruin your motivation to exercise. The key exercises for losing fat and building muscle, were not included into “exercise only” program. Exercises have several other benefits than weight loss.

A recent study shows that every hour you spend doing exercise, you increase your lifespan by 2 hours. But don’t mislead yourself, the more important is not the longevity, but the quality of life. You have better chances of being disease free when you are old if you exercise frequently.

As you already found out dieting is enough if you want to lose weight, but exercising is essencial for being healthy and fit. For many people, the purpose of losing the weight is being healthy, and if you are one of those people, do not stop your journey at weight loss. Just don’t try to lose weight in a week, because you may end up carrying even more pounds. If you aim living your life to the fullest, you should start a good exercise program which would help you achive your goals.

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