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TO LOSE WEIGHT, EATING LESS IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN

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 ARTICLE (600-700 WORDS)
By Aaron E. Carroll
June 15, 2015
One of my family’s favourite shows is “The Biggest Loser.” Although some viewers don’t
appreciate how it pushes people so hard to lose weight, the show probably inspires some
overweight people to regain control of their lives.
But one of the most frustrating parts of the show, at least for me, is its overwhelming
emphasis on exercise. Because when it comes to reaching a healthy weight, what you don’t
eat is much, much more important.
Think about it this way: If an overweight man is consuming 1,000 more calories
than he is burning and wants to be in energy balance, he can do it by exercising. But exercise
consumes far fewer calories than many people think. Thirty minutes of jogging or swimming
laps might burn off 350 calories. Many people, fat or fit, can’t keep up a strenuous 30-minute
exercise regimen, day in and day out. They might exercise a few times a week, if that.
Or they could achieve the same calorie reduction by eliminating two 16-ounce sodas each
day.
Proclamations that people need to be more active are ubiquitous in the iamed. The importance
of exercise for proper weight management is reinforced when people bemoan the loss of gym
class in schools as a cause of the obesity epidemic. Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program
places the focus on exercise as a critical component in combating excess weight and obesity.
Exercise has many benefits, but there are problems with relying on it to control weight. First,
it’s just not true that Americans, in general, aren’t listening to calls for more activity. From
2001 to 2009, the percentage of people who were sufficiently physically active increased. But
so did the percentage of Americans who were obese. The former did not prevent the latter.
Studies confirm this finding. A 2011 meta-analysis, a study of studies, looked at the
relationship between physical activity and fat mass in children, and found that being active is
probably not the key determinant in whether a child is at an unhealthy weight. In the adult
population, interventional studies have difficulty showing that a physically active person is
less likely to gain excess weight than a sedentary person. Further, studies of energy balance,
and there are many of them, show that total energy expenditure and physical activity levels in
developing and industrialized countries are similar, making activity and exercise unlikely to
be the cause of differing obesity rates.
Moreover, exercise increases one’s appetite. After all, when you burn off calories
being active, your body will often signal you to replace them. Research confirms this. A 2012
systematic review of studies that looked at how people complied with exercise programs
showed that over time, people wound up burning less energy with exercise than predicted and
also increasing their caloric intake.
Other metabolic changes can negate the expected weight loss benefits of exercise
over the long term. When you lose weight, metabolism often slows. Many people believe
that exercise can counter or even reverse that trend. Research, however, shows that the resting
metabolic rate in all dieters slows significantly, regardless of whether they exercise. This is
why weight loss, which might seem easy when you start, becomes harder over time.
This isn’t to say that exercise plays no role. There are many studies that show that adding
exercise to diets can be beneficial. A 1999 review identified three key meta-analyses and
other randomized controlled trials that found statistically significant, but overall small,
increases in weight loss with exercise

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 A meta-analysis published last year found that, in the long term, behavioral weight
management programs that combine exercise with diet can lead to more sustained weight loss
(three to four pounds) over a year than diet alone. Over a six-month period, though, adding
exercise made no difference. Another systematic review from last fall found similar results,
with diet plus exercise performing better than diet alone, but without much of an absolute
difference.
All of these interventions included dietary changes, and the added weight-loss
benefit from activity was small. Far too many people, though, can manage to find an hour or
more in their day to drive to the gym, exercise and then clean up afterward — but complain
that there’s just no time to cook or prepare a healthful, home-cooked meal. If they would
spend just half the time they do exercising trying to make a difference in the kitchen, they’d
most likely see much better results.
Many people think of dieting as a drastic and rigid change, with a high risk of putting
the pounds back on. What is more likely to succeed is gradual change, made in a much more
sustainable way. I also don’t mean to make it seem that weight loss with diet is easy and
exercise is hard. They’re both hard. The challenge of a slowing metabolism, and the desire to
eat more, occurs in both cases, although dietary change still works better than exercise.
But I can’t say this enough: Exercise has a big upside for health beyond potential weight loss.
Many studies and reviews detail how physical activity can improve outcomes
in musculoskeletal disorders, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, pulmonary diseases,
neurological diseases and depression. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges declared it a
“miracle cure” recently, and while I’m usually loath to use that term for anything in medicine,
a fairly large evidence base corroborates that exercise improves outcomes in many domains.
But that huge upside doesn’t seem to necessarily apply to weight loss. The data just don’t
support it. Unfortunately, exercise seems to excite us much more than eating less does. After
all, as a friend said to me recently, “The Biggest Loser” would be really boring if it were shot
after shot of contestants just not overeating.

Aaron E. Carroll is a professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. He

blogs on health research and policy at The Incidental Economist, and you can follow him on
Twitter at @aaronecarroll.

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 OUTLINE
Paragraph 1 (Overview)
1. Tittle To lose weight, eating less is far more important than
exercising
2. Author Aaron E. Carroll
3. Sources The New York Times
4. Issue Whether eating less is good for diet or exercising
5. Argument Eating less is better than exercising
6. Tone Discussion

Paragraph 2 (Main Point)

1. Exercise consumes for fewer calories.
2. Focus on exercise as a critical component in combating excess weight and obesity.
3. Exercise increase one’s appetite
4. Eating less spend less time compare exercise.
5. Exercise has a big upside for health beyond potential weight loss.

Paragraph 3 (Evidence/Supporting Details)

Supporting Details Type

1 No matter how fat or thin of someone’s body, however

majority of them still cannot go on to do a heavy exercise Personal opinion
regimen for 30 minutes no matter day or night. Such as,
jogging or swimming laps. Taking less calorie is better than
doing exercise that only burn a bit of calories in our body.
However, exercise program is also important for proper weight
management especially for obesity person.

2 There are problems or bad effects of exercise even though we Personal opinion
all know that exercise give us lots of good effect. One of the
problems is people had to control their body weight while
doing exercise. For example, fat persons use more energy to
support their weight body while doing the exercise rather than
fit persons. From 2001 to 2009, the percentage of people who
were sufficiently physically active increased but the rate of the
obesity problem on Americans percentage still increased. So
we can consume that most of obesity person are not like to do
exercises due to their body weight. Studies show that the
relationship between physical activity and fat mass in children
is not related because some obesity disorders depend on a
person's body metabolism.

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 3 Exercise can increase one’s appetite because the body system Personal opinion
will give the impact to replace calories that burned by exercise
activities. For example, a person becomes hungry and thirsty
when finished exercising differently than a person who does
not exercise. A 2012 systematic review of studies that looked
at how people complied with exercise programs showed that
over time, people wound up burning less energy with exercise
than predicted and also increase their caloric intake in daily
routine.

4 Exercise change our daily routine activities by spending an Personal opinion

hour or more in our day to drive to the gym, exercise and then
clean up after exercise. Exercise can make someone become
tired and start complaining that there is no time to cook or do
home works. This is so different when someone eat less (take
less calories) but they still have a time to do their own daily
routine activities.
However, the only challenge for them is to avoid eating high
calories food. Such as fast food.

5 Exercise can improve outcomes in our body system. Such as by Personal opinion
doing an exercise, it can reduce musculoskeletal disorders,
cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depressions and others. This
is the reason a physical activity called as a “miracle cure” by
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. However, no matter
how many benefits come from exercise it is still not
appropriate to lose weight

Paragraph 4 (Our Opinion)

Agree Reason
1. Eating 5 times a day in small portions is Because it can help to burn the fat
more effective at losing weight. first.
2. The body will not be able to burn the large
calories if we eat at once, so that in the end
it is even stored as fat.
3. Eating less can manage time more flexible Because you did not rush to go gym
or do exercise especially during
weekdays.
Disagree Reason
1. Eating a little can cause a person to become Because lack of exercise can cause
weak and lack energy. of loss fit body.
2. Exercise can reduce and control weight. Because daily exercise helps to keep
it off over in long term in control
weight.
3. Eating less can cause a person to be Because they only focus want to eat
deficient in nutrients less in one day for diet.

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Paragraph 5 (Conclusion)
a. Restatement of opinion
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b. Final comments
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 Commentary

The article is about eating less is more important than exercising in losing weight. The
article was written by Aaron E. Carroll discuss and optimise that eating less is better than
exercising. We know that nowadays people are so active in losing weight and gain fitness for
their body’s. So, by eating less can more help people in losing weight in their diet’s compare
to exercise.

The reason why eating less more important than exercise is, exercise consume fewer
calories. Besides, focus more on exercise can cause as a critical component in combating
excess weight and obesity. Do more exercise also can increase our appetite and that the reason
why hard for some people to diet. If we eating less, we can manage our time wisely because
we do not rush or forget about doing exercise in daily day. If we always do exercise that
burden ourselves it can cause a big upside for health in future.