The Need to Be Thin: A Lost Cause?

Despite America's efforts as a whole to lose weight, a third of our citizens are obese. This article states how exercising can actually cause people to gain weight because after a rigorous workout, individuals are more likely to be hungry and eat large amounts of food than if they had gotten no exercise and ate a normal amount of food.

Studies show that even though advertisements glamorize the idea that exercising will help weight loss, exercise researcher Eric Ravussin says that "In general, for weight loss, exercising is pretty useless".

So what does this all mean? People may exercise to burn off fat, but working out may make it more difficult to lose weight if a person exercises only to eat more food after due to fatigue.

-Molly Cheng