Rebranding Exercise: Why Exercise is the World’s Best Drug, Just Not a Weight Loss Drug
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Yoni Freedhoff, Assistant Prof., University of Ottawa, Department of Family Medicine, presented the keynote address at PHE Canada and HPEC's 2015 National Conference: A Physical Literacy Uprising.
Freedhoff argues that by preventing cancers, improving blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar, bolstering sleep, attention, preparedness to learn, energy and mood, and doing so much more, exercise has indisputably proven itself to be the world’s best drug - better than any pharmaceutical product any physician could ever prescribe. Sadly, says Freedhoff, exercise is not a weight loss drug, and so long as exercise is pushed in the name of preventing or treating adult or childhood obesity, the public will continue to be short-changed about the genuinely incredible health benefits of exercise, and simultaneously misinformed about the realities of long term weight management. It is time to REBRAND.
"Exercise is the single most important modifiable determinant of health. There is nothing that a person could do that would help and benefit their health more than regularly exercising." -Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
Excellent for mild depression and giving relaxed nights sleep…my wife live in London U.K. and are 70. We do the gym five days a week but are the oldest by 30 years..very different in the USA especially California where older people tend to engage more in exercise..it takes determination but can be a positive addiction…great talk thanks
We've known this at least since the 70s. Jim Fixx, the distance runner who wrote The Book of Running, ate what he wanted because he was a distance runner. He was skinny as a rail. And died of sudden heart attack from heart disease.
You cannot exercise away crappy food.
But you CAN become very skinny if you exercise enough. Distance runners are the perfect example. But how many of us are long distance runners?
Chronic cardio like long distance running is not good for your health. Jim Fixx died from chronic heart stress. I do not know what he ate..but you are right if you eat junk..you will suffer.
"(Exercise) is the best single drug EVER! But, it is not a weight loss drug." Great line, Yoni.
Many physique competitors will say it is 80% nutrition and 20% gym.
Why is it so hard to eat healthy?
he keeps just referring to 'weight', if you do a tonne of exercise you'll turn lots of fat in to muscle, you might not lose much 'weight' overall, but you are much more heathy and less fat.
Exactly! Body builders and weight lifters are classed as obese according to the BMI scale.
100% true. Exercise has countless benefits, but clearly food choices determines weight.
The study about men and exercise over time might be misleading, because the weight that the exercise group gained may very well have been muscle.
Exercise increases muscle mass, and thus not solely for weight loss.
Not for weight loss at all. The data shows it is close to useless for weight loss. Intermittent fasting increases muscle mass (decreases fat mass) while maintaining the same weight. Plenty of data and personal anecdotes on that score.
Exercise stimulates appetite.
That is a myth. Intense exercise actually decreases appetite. Grand tour cyclists and ultra marathon runners have to force themselves to eat after a stage/race because they have to.
Its the mild exercisers who go out and walk a slow 5 Km who pretend or kid themselves that they are hungry, because they did some exercise.
Awesome because this shows that no matter how much I exercise, it's my diet that really matters. One thing I've found over the years is that exercising regularly naturally reduces my appetite provided I avoid sugar and flour.
Gary Taubes does an in-depth analysis of why exercise is a futile attempt to lose weight. many videos on youtube. It's simple, control your insulin and you control your weight. NOTE: Nutritionist need not view videos, simply continue to stay uninformed.
Exactly. Still plenty in the establishment insisting that insulin has nothing to do with it and it's just calories. I don't know whether it's extreme cognitive dissonance or face-saving.
Diet matters and the type of exercise matters. I have two contrasting experiences with weight management. The first was what I experienced post partum where I exercised but my energy expenditure was less and I hardly changed my diet. Despite several months of work, I only lost 3kgs. A year later I moved more, ate a low carb diet, did intermittent fasting, ate better, and had a consistent exercise regimen. I lost 16 kgs and gained more muscles and definitely have more energy.
It's like your money. What you earn v what you spend...and if you spend more that you earn...you'll lose interrest as well!
Omg this was great!!
Doc is right. I exercised my whole life..since Pandemic I stopped..and have suffered.
Ha, ha, ha. There it is right there at 14;00. The study comparing Nigerian women subsistence farmers with "unemployed" women in Chicago revealed both groups burned the same amount of calories over a 3 year period. We are "wired" to burn a certain amount of calories regardless of environment. What causes the weight-gain is the environment, the industrial food environment.
@Val ,
Mmm, right. That's what the food companies want you to believe. Processed food is deficient in protein and micronutrients. Biological mechanisms drive hunger when in nutrient deficit.
Basically, most overweight or obese people are nutritionally starved but overfed and overfat on empty calories.
That's the dirty little secret food companies don't want people to understand.
(Btw, nutrition-poor food is very cheap because it has no value).
@Val ,
Right, there's processing and processing.
It's a matter of whether commercial or domestic and what the ingredients are. Humans (bipedal apes) have been "processing" food for probably something like 1.5 million years.It's goes hand in hand with the expensive tissue hypothesis (ETO) Both with meat (skinning, dissecting, cooking, cracking bones with rocks) and with plants (pounding, soaking, fermenting, cooking, etc).
Richard Wrangham calls us the cooking ape. We can't really consume raw, unprocessed foods and extract enough nutrients to sustain health in the long term.
The difference between what happened in the past and what has occurred in the last 150 years since industrialization of the food supply is nutritional content and value. So-called "ultra-processed" foods as you refer to them, are simply stripped or devoid of nutrients in order to preserve shelf-life. It does make the food very convenient and very cheap. (good for profits).Just not good for anything else - (particularly health).
Better mobility, improved circulation, and yes, some better blood glucose uptake, etc...the cynical emphasis on calorie burning (fat loss) by both food and even fitness INDUSTRY has got to get lost.
This talk has value but the presentation is annoying and ineffective. Very hard to follow the point he is trying to make.
This is depressing.
Why doesnt he look like he exercise