{"id":2379,"date":"2023-01-08T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2023-01-08T23:16:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T23:16:36","slug":"im-a-scientist-exercise-wont-help-you-lose-weight-on-its-own-its-what-you-eat-that-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a scientist \u2013 exercise won\u2019t help you lose weight on its own, it\u2019s what you eat that counts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prof Spector, from King&#8217;s College London, said exercise \u2013 of any kind \u2013 actually plays &#8220;very little role in\u00a0weight loss&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told the podcast The Diary of a CEO: &#8220;All the long-term studies show it doesn&#8217;t help weight loss\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s been grossly exaggerated as an easy fix for our obesity problem. All the studies show that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The only caveat to that is if you have changed your diet, improved your diet and lost some weight, maintaining some exercise does prevent it going back up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But on its own, if you don&#8217;t change your diet, it&#8217;s no use and that&#8217;s well known now by all obesity experts and the studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/health\/20974115\/scientist-exercise-wont-help-you-lose-weight\/\">The Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Spector, from King&#8217;s College London, said exercise \u2013 of any kind \u2013 actually plays &#8220;very little role in\u00a0weight loss&#8221;.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}