Sport does not necessarily cure obesity
30 min of daily physical activity recommended. We keep hearing it everywhere, to be in good health you have to play sports, especially when you are overweight or suffering from obesity. But sport is not the only parameter to take into account for weight loss.
3 international public health experts say the public health message on this is incomplete. Indeed, in an editorial published in April 2015 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (1) , they certainly agree on the idea that sport is still very important in reducing the risk of disease. cardiovascular, but experts believe that it is important not to publish to take into account a good diet. According to them, a healthy diet would have more impact than sport on obesity.
Assem Malhotra, cardiologist, and one of the experts who published this editorial, specifies that more importance should be given to eliminating sugars and fatty foods from our diet. “An obese person doesn’t have to exercise to lose weight, they just need to eat less. My biggest concern is that the message to the public suggests that you can eat whatever you like as long as you exercise. It is anti-scientific and false. You can’t undo a bad diet with exercise,” she adds.
She gives the example of monitoring your weight through calorie counting. It is therefore not the number of calories that counts but rather the origin of the calories.
Physical activity is, of course, not at all to be banned from our lives. It is still important for a healthy lifestyle. You just have to combine the two: a healthy diet and regular physical activity. The experts in this study just “wanted to debunk the myth of physical inactivity and obesity,” they say. They also insist on an effort to be made on our part by beingware of advertising messages that emit misleading messages, pushing the consumption of certain junk food products that promote obesity, by making believe that playing sports will solve the problem. Poor diet generates more diseases than physical inactivity, alcohol and smoking combined (according to a study in the Lancet journal).
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.