An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction.

But which has more of an impact on fat burning? Scientists carried out a  couple of exercises to come up with the answer.

Research On Weight Loss

There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning nutrition or exercise has a bigger impact on fat burning. As few studies like this had been conducted, scientists followed them closely.

They studied people who moved from big cities to the suburbs, and the reverse, to determine the affect of the move on the weight of the subjects. The subjects in the cities and the suburbs had similar diet intakes. The results were expected, but fascinating.

Results From the Weight Loss Studies

Within the first year of moving from a city to the suburbs, the participants in the studies gained, on average, 15 pounds. Within the first six to eight months of moving to a city from the suburbs, the subjects in the studies lost an average of 15 pounds

The main conclusion of the studies was as follows:

The subjects living in a city did more walking than the subjects living in the suburbs. Living in the suburbs often meant that the subjects had to drive, as opposed to walk, to perfrom many of their duties, while people in the city tend to walk more to carry out their responsibilies. This was responsible for the weight change.

Recognized experts agree that exercise has a greater bearing on losing weight than your diet. In terms of the relative impact that exercise and nutrition have on weight loss, it was said that exercise is accountable for 65% while nutrition is 35%.

If you want to get rid of the excess weight and fat on your body, you will need to exercise as well as pay attention to nutrition.

How Can You Use The Results Of These Studies?

Can you burn fat and lose weight permanently if

  • you get plenty of exercise, but continue to eat the way you have always eaten? 
  • you follow a good weight loss diet, but dont exercise at all?
  • you do not wholly adopt the guidance  on exercise and nutrition?

Click here for answers to these weight loss diet and exercise questions.

 

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