Obesity crisis 'cannot be solved by exercise alone'

Obesity crisis 'cannot be solved by exercise alone'
"Study urges severely obese to eat more healthily, finding that forgoing a small sandwich is as effective as a one-hour run".
The obesity epidemic will not be reversed by urging people to exercise more, because they have too little time to spare- researchers claim.
To make an impact on levels of obesity, severely overweight people would have to exercise for several hours a day, when they could find it easier to lose the weight by eating less, they said.
An obese person with a body mass index of 35 could reach a more healthy weight and BMI of 22 by reducing their calorie intake by one third. "That is equivalent to exercising for around five hours a day. That is not realistic," said

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