Posts Tagged ‘exercise’

Anyone who has been paying attention has a pretty good idea that sitting around in front of a computer screen or just sitting at a desk isn’t so good for their health. But what are you going to do about it? That’s simple — just get up and move around every hour. Okay, but honestly […]

First Lady Michelle Obama was in Europe this weekend, promising more of Let’s Move, even after she leaves the White House. Speaking with reporters, she described the progress she believes she has made: Taken together, these changes are starting to have an impact. Childhood obesity rates have finally stopped rising, and obesity rates are actually […]

One of the most common questions about obesity is: how did we get all this obesity? And the answer is seldom satisfying because it’s so complicated and so much remains unknown. Yesterday at the 2015 Blackburn Obesity Course in Boston, Lee Kaplan defied that generalization and presented a compelling distillation of what is known about […]

If you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, perhaps it’s news to you that sitting is killing you. If not, maybe you jumped on the latest workplace wellness trend — a standing desk. But the latest research suggests that you might want to walk away from that standing desk. Literally. A study of objective physical […]

It seems that conspiracy theories are so appealing that sometimes they lead people to lose the facts. So it was recently in the British Journal of Sports Medicine when Aseem Malhotra and colleagues published an editorial blaming the food industry for misinformation about the role of exercise in obesity, saying: Many still wrongly believe that obesity is entirely […]

Would Let’s Fidget! have been a better idea than Let’s Move! for First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature obesity initiative? Maybe so, if you read between the lines of a rather thorough review of the evidence base for non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) in obesity. NEAT consists of fidgeting, walking, standing, and many other routine movements that don’t qualify […]

A new editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine starts with an interesting discussion of misperceptions about what exercise can and can’t do for obesity. Then it takes a hard turn toward questions about who’s conspiring to make us all fat. These are two very different questions that should be kept separate, but Aseem […]

At the 2015 Weight Management DPG Symposium, more than 200 RDN obesity experts were treated to an exceptional tour through a range of new obesity guidelines that have emerged in just the last two years. And the tour guide was Donna Ryan, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, who played a leading role in their creation. […]

At the Institute of Medicine, some of the world’s top experts in human physiology just spent two days describing the difference physical activity makes in exquisite detail. In a word, for most people, that difference is good health. You can find plenty of academic debate about how and how much exercise contributes to weight outcomes in […]

How could it be possible to oversell exercise? The benefits for health are tremendous. Regular physical activity can help you live longer, feel better, keep diabetes and heart disease under control, put you in a better mood, and improve your sex life. But one selling point that exercise doesn’t deliver so well is weight loss. So […]