About Time Magazine’s article “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin?”
Okay so I just read this week’s Time Magazine and the cover story was entitled, “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin” and all I can say is STOP PUTTING SUCH MISINFORMATION OUT THERE!!!! Aren’t we as Americans so tired of all these “studies” that tell us that this is bad for you now and that is good for you now. I understand that we are ever evolving and, yes, things do change but to put something like that on the cover of Time Magazine infuriates me. When I read the article and the writer talked about how his wife and her running group were complaining about not losing any weight, the real reason is that they were going to Starbucks afterwards and making UNHEALTHY choices. The idea that people out there want to “reward” themselves for going to the gym by eating “crap” just tells me that they have not made the full connection yet when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. Nutrition is extremely important when it comes to losing weight but you can never discount the ENDLESS benefits of moving your body around and exercising. In my work with my contestants on the Biggest Loser, when you combine eating right with working out not only do you achieve great weight loss, but conditions like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol just to name a few, become more manageable. Not only that but people who exercise are happier also and sleep better. Exercise is a crucial piece of the healthy puzzle that we are all trying to piece together so PLEASE do not take away from that misguided article that you shouldn’t workout or what’s the point, because it is important and when you do workout just remember to make the wise choice when it comes to your food and stay away from those fatty, sugary and salty foods. I beg you to make the FULL connection to living a healthy life. Boy, I’m still burning up about that article…..can you tell..xoxox
Here’s a link to the article
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html
Still can’t figure out the story on vitamins yet and now their saying exercise doesn’t work. Well I guess whatever is out of the norm is news. What you said on the program about losing inches instead of weight made sence to me cause my favorite line is “it is what it is!”
It is high time for things to change with regard to the information that the media is serving up as the truth to the public. We as a nation are far to trusting of the media and what is reported as science. I am a big supporter of science and the skeptic’s movement. These two organizations have been very active in trying to get the real information with regard to many health and environmental issues to the public but it seems that they are constantly pushed away for more “exciting” information that is often misaligned with what the science is behind any given issue. I have learned through skeptical analysis of any information that it is very helpful to do your research and to keep an open but skeptical mind to what the media is telling us.
I was going to the gym quite often and my weight lost was close to nothing, one pound here, two pounds there, gain a pound, lose a pound…it wasnt until I decided to really count calories, zipped it and making healthier choices, that I really started lossing weight, so, yes, what are they expecting?, that one hour excercise is a “free ticket” to eat like pigs??, no wonder why they werent making any progress >(
