Subject: | Re: Exercise Ineffective for Weight Loss?
| Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:21:01 -0700
| From: | Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
| Newsgroups: | misc.fitness.weights,alt.support.diet,rec.running,sci.med.nutrition,alt.support.fat-acceptance
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In article <1193939977.456803.327090@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
muzician21@yahoo.com wrote:
> > A nutritionist told me that back in 1976. It's been estimated that
> > you burn 100 Kcalories per mile (that would vary by weight, of
> > course). One pound of fat is about 3500 Kcalories. That means you
> > would have to run thirty five miles to burn up one pound of fat.
>
>
> It's not just what happens during exercise - it's the resulting
> changes in your body's metabolism and how it burns calories at all
> times.
Of course. And just because you burn up one pound of fat, that doesn't
mean you lose a pound; there are other factors involved.
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