“You can’t run from the fork.”
It’s an old weight-loss saying, reminding folks that diet is more important than exercise when it comes to shedding excess pounds.
But is that true for everyone?
New research suggests there’s a category of “diet-resistant” people who need to work out and watch what they eat if they want to shed pounds.
In fact, these folks should prioritize exercise, because it decreases their fat mass and boosts their muscles’ ability to burn calories, the Canadian study concluded.
“We found that the slow losers responded much better to exercise than the fast losers did,” said senior study author Mary-Ellen Harper. She is research chair of mitochondrial bioenergetics at the University of Ottawa….