An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction.
But does exercise or nutrition have a bigger affect on weight loss? Scientists carried out a couple of exercises to come up with the answer.
Weight Loss Studies
There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning nutrition or exercise has a bigger impact on fat burning. The studies were particularly interesting.
They reviewed the affect of a move from the city to the suburbs, and vice versa, on the weight of the subjects. The nutritional intake of both sets of subjects were similar. The results were expected, but fascinating.
Findings from the studies
Within the first year of moving from a city to the suburbs, the participants in the studies gained, on average, 15 pounds. Within the first six to eight months of moving to a city from the suburbs, the subjects in the studies lost an average of 15 pounds
The main conclusion of the studies was as follows:
The subjects living in a city did more walking than the subjects living in the suburbs. Living in the suburbs often meant that the subjects had to drive, as opposed to walk, to perfrom many of their duties, while people in the city tend to walk more to carry out their responsibilies. This was the reason for the change in weight.
An expert in the field of Applied Physiology and Nutrition has said that fat burning exercise has a bigger impact on fat loss and permanent weight loss than nutrition. In terms of the relative impact that exercise and nutrition have on weight loss, it was said that exercise is accountable for 65% while nutrition is 35%.
Most experts agree that, in a perfect world, you would do a recommended fat burning exercise routine as well as addressing your nutrition, if you want to burn fat and achieve a permanent weight reduction.
How Can You Use The Results Of These Studies?
Can you burn fat and lose weight permanently if
- you follow the right exercise routine, but do not change your diet?
- you adhere to a diet that should help you to lose weight, but you do no exercise?
- you dont fully adhere to the dietary and exercise advice?
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