Comments on: Why Exercise Won’t Help You Lose Weight https://plantifulhealth.com/why-exercise-wont-help-you-lose-weight/ Plant-Based Nutrition & Coaching Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 By: Devin Ellsworth https://plantifulhealth.com/why-exercise-wont-help-you-lose-weight/#comment-60 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:48:19 +0000 https://plantifulhealth.com/?p=3145#comment-60 That’s a great question, and researchers have tested this! They compared the arterial health of a group of sedentary vegans with a group of endurance athletes eating the Standard American Diet (SAD). So basically you have people eating a very clean diet but not exercising AT ALL, and people eating a poor diet and exercising like crazy (running 48 miles a week for 21 years).

They found that the arteries of the vegans were healthier than the exercisers! It appears all the exercise in the world can’t make up for a poor diet. And, I would contend that changing your diet is far easier than committing to running two marathons a week for 21 years 🙂

But, it’s best to eat healthy AND exercise, and if the vegans in the study were also exercisers, I’d imagine they’d see even healthier arteries.

So, all factors included, I’d still say its around 80/20 diet to exercise for health. And my post is not to disparage exercise — it still gets 20%! It is still incredibly important! It just should not be your primary strategy toward health or toward weight loss…

You can see a review of the study I mentioned here: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arteries-of-vegans-vs-runners/

]]> By: Alex https://plantifulhealth.com/why-exercise-wont-help-you-lose-weight/#comment-59 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:57:15 +0000 https://plantifulhealth.com/?p=3145#comment-59 This is a great reminder, but as you allude to in the post, there is more to health than just your weight. How does the 80/20 rule change when considering things like heart disease, bone health, diabetes, emotional well-being, etc. as opposed to just weight? If you had to lump all human health factors together and assign a diet/exercise impact ratio, would it be more like 50/50, or perhaps more like 90/10?

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