Month: August 2009

You have heard it for years: to lose weight, hit the gym. But while physical activity is crucial for good health, it does not always melt off the weight – in fact, it can add some. That was the blurb on a recent cover story in Time magazine.
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Washington, Aug 20 : Leading exercise and weight management experts have strongly objected to assertions that exercise can inhibit weight loss by over-stimulating the appetite.
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Exercise can be as addictive as heroin
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Exercise can be as addictive as heroin
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Runners, beware. A new study has found that excessive running shares similarities with drug-taking behavior. The scientists who conducted the study reason that if excessive exercise is addicting, then maybe, to feel good, addicts could take moderate exercise instead of drugs.
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Although exercise is good for your health, extreme exercise may be physically addicting. Rats given a drug that produces withdrawal in heroin addicts went into withdrawal after running excessively in exercise wheels, according to new research. Rats that ran the hardest had the most severe withdrawal symptoms.
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To imply, as Time magazine did, that we shouldn’t be working out or playing sports because exercising alone won’t help us get thin is missing the point of exercise entirely.
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Leading experts in exercise and weight management have taken strong exception to assertions that exercise can inhibit weight loss by over-stimulating the appetite. According to John Jakicic, Ph.D., FACSM, “There is strong evidence from the majority of the scientific literature that physical activity is an important component for initial weight loss.
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Leading experts in exercise and weight management have taken strong exception to assertions that exercise can inhibit weight loss by over-stimulating the appetite. According to John Jakicic, “There is strong evidence from the majority of the scientific literature that physical activity is an important component for initial weight loss.”
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