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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't buy the idea that exercise has nothing to do with weight. Just the opposite. But, if exercising is just an excuse to eat more, well, clearly it will have little or no effect. But, if you eat the [b]same amount today as you did yesterday and let's say that is 2000 calories, and then you burn 500 calories, you only got 1500 calories that day, as opposed to 2000. [/b]That may or may not be enough to make somebody lose weight, but exercising several times per week can certainly make you more toned and it does have the added benefit of releasing endorphin that might make you feel more positive about yourself and things in general. After all, for centuries only richest were fat, what we call exercise here, today, people used to call life. Imagine having to cut wheat with a scythe all day long?Haul and make bales of hay? How many hours a day would you have to run to burn off the same amount of calories as that farmer that worked dawn to dusk? I know just raking leaves in my huge backyard causes me incredibly sore arms, even though I do exercise. I also wanted to add that I know many women who are overweight and beautiful. [/quote]

This is all flawed thinking.  There isn't one universal rate of metabolism, so the math doesn't work like you suggest it does.

People who are more consistently active and have more muscle generally have a higher rate of metabolism.  That means, even when they are at rest, they are burning more calories than someone who is sedentary with less muscle would burn at rest.

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I don't see where is this huge flawed thinking?  I stated that exercise has a lot to do with weight, you wrote people who exercise have higher metabolic rate, due to having more muscle mass, hence faster metabolism. I even said MAY or MAY NOT cause weight loss, since it is all individual. Maybe my example of calories in and calories burned is flawed, but all I see is that you agree with me, and that exercise has a lot to do with metabolism, hence weight.  If I run an hour per day, my metabolic rate will increase, maybe not as much as different persons, but since genetic component of metabolism is not the only thing contributing to how fast we burn fat when sedentary, farmer who has a huge muscle mass will burn a ton more while sedentary than a person who has many less pounds of muscle and more pounds of fat. [/quote]

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