The author of this article must be fat. While our DNA does indeed hold a large portion of the responsibility of how our bodies develop to maturity, people can do A LOT to prevent themselves from becoming grossly overweight. How has overeating not been attributed to obesity? Lets do the math here: excessive calories + not enough exercise (i.e. too much time on your butt watching television) to burn fat = more fat stored by your body... Don't need to be a nutritionist or a scientist to figure that out.

as it is you do not lose weight in exercising. You merely get hungry. Howevere exercise is good for you from many other aspects. But do keep this in mind please.

As for dieting the idea that fatfree diets high in carbohydrates is how to lose

weight has nothing speaking for itself.

Nor do fat people eat more than others but they do it a lot of carbohydrates.

you don't lose weight exercising? it burns fat, plain and simple. come on.

When you eat food, your body gains energy. If you are not using as much energy as you have eaten, your body stores the energy as fat. When you exercise, your body uses the energy stored as fat, thus "burning" fat and gaining muscle. However, muscle weighs more than fat, so if you exercise and diet a lot and gain a lot of muscle, you also will gain weight.

It is a myth that you burn fat when exercising. The body is no machine. However the idea that the body is a machine serves the gym industry among other industry thriving on what they know little about.

All one knows for sure is that you get hungry when exercising.

However exercising is good for you from a number of other aspects. But not for losing weight.

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kerstin:

It is a myth that you burn fat when exercising. The body is no machine.

Ok, I'm game: where does the energy come from that moves your muscles when you exercise?

shines:

kerstin:

It is a myth that you burn fat when exercising. The body is no machine.

Ok, I'm game: where does the energy come from that moves your muscles when you exercise?

Glycogen.

Glycogen is the preferred energy source for muscles for most exercise demands, however, it is not the only one and kerstin is disingenuous at best, to suggest otherwise

Depending on the type and intensity of exercise, muscle and liver glycogen can be rapidly depleted and there is an ongoing process of fat mobilization and lipid oxidation that also occurs concurrently, particularly, in long duration (lower intensity) activity.