01-10-2004
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Re: Getting Exercised About Exercise
>http://www.techcentralstation.com/010804D.html > >Getting Exercised About Exercise >By Sandy Szwarc Published 01/08/2004 > >To combat the obesity epidemic our government wants us to get into >shape. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's Shape Up America! >has been updated with Shape Up & Drop 10™ and Surgeon General David >Satcher's 10,000 Steps Program. A multitude of other compulsory exercise >programs targeting fat have also been instituted by major employers, >schools and healthcare providers. > >The shared goal of these exercise initiatives is weight loss. The >underlying belief is that being "in shape" means being thin and no one >would be fat if everyone exercised. For consumers, the take home message >is that the whole point of exercise is to be thin. In fact, we're >admonished everyday to exercise to lose weight. > >Trouble is, exercise - as necessary as it is for us -- won't make us thin. > >"I think fitness and medical professionals are doing a disservice to >their clients when they position exercise as a way to lose weight," said >Jennifer Portnick, personal trainer and certified aerobic exercise >instructor at Feeling Good Fitness in the Bay area. "Becoming active may >or may not result in a change in weight." > >But few of us realize that the most significant body of research shows >exercise doesn't appreciably change body weights at all. > > -snip- > >--- > >Jean C > "You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can > only decide how you're going to live, NOW." > Joan Baez >http://www.uidaho.edu/~bjcraw/ LOL! So healthy eating won't make you lose weight and now exercise is useless too?? It sure sounds to me like you are advocating SLOTH and GLUTTONY. Maybe if you stopped reading these articles (all written by the same Sandy kook) and started getting on that treadmill you'd be thinner. HTH S*nort |
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