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This is a poor headline. I'd say a better one would be. "Majority of US Healthcare Costs are Cause by Not Exercising enough to burn calories from Bad Eating Habits"
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It's not actually new wisdom. We are just going back to what we knew 40 years ago. Basically, between 1960 and 2009 we thought exercise will make you thinner. Outside those times exercise was thought to increase appetite.
The somewhat confusing thing is that people focus so much on "losing weight". Even if exercise makes you hungrier, it's been shown quite conclusively to make you healthier . If you really want to lose weight without regard to any other factors then take up smoking as it reduces your appetite. Or just cut off your legs. Certainly don't build up any muscle mass as that will only make you heavier.
People confuse this the statement that later exercise make up for a person's lack of exercise at a given period. This might or might not be true but it doesn't follow from the first statement. Lack of exercise over longer periods might screw people in ways that we have no idea how to fix.
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Comparing Canada vs USA obesity rates shows that YES indeed eating habits seem to be very different: http://eaves.ca/2008/07/08/fatness-index-canada-vs-united-st...
As a Canadian living in the USA I have to say, we don't eat that differently in Canada, the big difference is we eat less . Canada is just as full of greasy, nutrtionless, processed-to-hell food as America is, but we simply do not consume as much of it, from my observations. When I moved to the USA I immediately (over 4 months) gained a buttload of weight (both figuratively and literally...). This is due to my bad ha…