GEORGIE - RANT number 2 (It's my last I promise!)

Occasionally we get the odd peice of research that gets interpreted by a journalist in a way that if you just read the headline, you will never get the correct picture. It makes me REALLY mad.



Take this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1312455/How-diet-exercise-key-losing-weight.html it talks about how scientists have found we don’t actually do less exercise then we did before. It states that our sedentary habits have shifted but we in 20 years not much has changed, we are just as active, but we are getting fatter. This, the article and scientists conclude, is because we simply eat more and that is the key to our current epidemic of obesity. Fine I say. Probably correct.



But the article’s title – ‘How Diet and not Exercise is the key to losing Weight’ are you kidding me? I doubt there are many people who bother to read an article fully and might get the wrong message from this title. What the article says is that we take as much exercise as before. It says that obese people eat too much on the whole. The title makes out that people dieting shouldn’t bother to take exercise too. Thanks for the help there on dealing with the obesity crisis Daily Mail. We all know that calories in has to be less then calories expended to lose the pounds. One way to do that is to take MORE exercise.



Rant over...