Against all the laws of natural justice, at the end of the study , there was no significant difference in weight loss between those who had exercised — some of them for several days a week — and those who hadn't. Church doesn't record whether he told the women who he'd had training for three and half hours a week, or whether he was wearing protective clothing when he did. Some of the women even gained weight. Church identified the problem and called it "compensation": those who exercised cancelled out the calories they had burned by eating more, generally as a form of self-reward.
The post-workout pastry to celebrate a job well done — or even a few pieces of fruit to satisfy their stimulated appetites — undid their good work.
In some cases, they were less physically active in their daily life as well. His findings are backed up by a paper on childhood obesity published in by Boston academics Steven Gortmaker and Kendrin Sonneville. In an month study investigating what they call "the energy gap" — the daily imbalance between energy intake and expenditure — the pair showed that when the children in their experiment exercised, they ended up eating more than the calories they had just burned, sometimes 10 or 20 times as many.
In the s, the celebrated French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer was the first to introduce a link between exercise and weight reduction. Until then, the notion that physical activity might help you lose weight was actually rather unfashionable in the scientific community — in the s, a leading specialist had persuasively argued that it was more effective to keep patients on bed rest.
Over the course of his career, Mayer's pioneering studies — on rats, babies and schoolgirls — demonstrated that the less active someone was, the more likely they were to be fat. Mayer himself, the son of two eminent physiologists, and a Second World War hero to boot, became one of the world's leading figures in nutrition and most influential voices in the sphere of public health.
As an advisor to the White House and to the World Health Organisation, he drew correlations between exercise and fitness that triggered a revolution in thinking on the subject in the 60s and 70s. Each successive postwar generation was enjoying an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and those lifestyles have been accompanied by an apparently inexorable increase in obesity.
Three in five UK adults are now officially overweight. And type II diabetes, which used to be a disease that affected you at the end of your life, is now the fastest-rising chronic disorder in paediatric clinics.
But have we confused cause and effect? Terry Wilkin, professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, argues that we have. The title of his latest research is: "Fatness leads to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to fatness". Wilkin is nearing the end of an year study on obesity in children, which has been monitoring the health, weight and activity levels of subjects since the age of five.
When his team compared the more naturally active children with the less active ones, they were surprised to discover absolutely no difference in their body fat or body mass.
That's not to say that exercise is not making the children healthy in other ways, says Wilkin, just that it's having no palpable effect on their overall size and shape. For one thing, Wilkin believes he has discovered another form of "compensation", similar to Timothy Church's discovery that we reward ourselves with food when we exercise.
Looking at the question of whether it was possible to change a child's physical activity, Wilkin's team put accelerometers on children at schools with very different PE schedules: one which offered 1.
But when they got home they did the reverse. Those who had had the activity during the day flopped and those who hadn't perked up, and if you added the in-school and out-of-school together you got the same. From which we concluded that physical activity is controlled by the brain, not by the environment — if you're given a big opportunity to exercise at one time of day you'll compensate at another.
Wilkin argues that the environmental factors we tend to obsess about in the fight against obesity — playing fields, PE time in school, extracurricular activities, parental encouragement — are actually less of a factor in determining what exercise we do than our own bodies.
In other words, what physical activity you do is not going to be left to the city council to decide. It's going to be controlled, fundamentally, from within. Pack on the protein, especially during breakfast.
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That's because restricting what you eat is only a temporary solution; whereas making healthier choices on a daily basis is a part of a lifestyle that can help you maintain your weight. We're not talking large cuts of meat or protein shakes. O'Riordan recommends combos like cheese with grapes and celery with peanut butter for healthy and filling snack options. We're all busy, between work, school, sports, and everything else.
However, it's important to carve some time out of your day to enjoy a sit-down meal. Not only is this time you can use to bond with your family, but sitting down for dinner is also great for your health: "Eating mindlessly while doing other things leads to overconsumption, and more likely than not you will be making poorer food choices," O'Riordan says.
When it comes to snacking, choose foods that'll keep your energy levels soaring all day long. Chewing is the first part of the digestive process, although it doesn't get as much attention as it should. Taking the time to chew properly can help the enzymes in your saliva breakdown your food so that it's more easily digested in your body.
Chewing can also help you avoid overeating. This will help you stay mindful of how much food you're consuming, with little to no effort. It doesn't pay to refer to brownies as "bad" and kale as "good. A later study confirmed the results: If you tell yourself you can't have chocolate and try not to think about chocolate, you obsess over … chocolate — and find yourself scarfing Snickers.
It ties back to thinking you're a dieting failure, which makes you feel guilty and overeat as a result. For a happier relationship with food, ditch "bad" from your vocabulary. Not only is staying hydrated important to maintaining overall health especially when exercising , but also sometimes, we confuse the feeling of thirst for hunger, says the Mayo Clinic.
While it can be tempting to turn to sugary beverages such as soda, juice, coffee with sweeteners, and cocktails, try to drink plenty of water instead. Keep a pitcher of water at your desk to help remind you, and carry around a reusable water bottle when on the go. Foods with low-fat or low-calorie labels sound good in theory. The problem is that they're often heavily processed and high in carbs. What's more, companies enhance these products after removing fat by pumping them with sugar, salt and other additives.
But they do that to cut through the tricky health claims splashed across the front of the package to find out what's really in the food.
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