Many people rely on running and other sports to lose weight. However, exercise is not necessarily a panacea for weight loss, and it may even make people fat.
In 2015, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published a study, in which 81 obese women did aerobic exercise for 12 weeks, while keeping their original diet during the process. The study discovered a strange phenomenon: at the end of the 12 weeks, 70 percent of the participants had an increase in body fat.
Some of the participants’ weight increased 10 pounds, and the increase was mostly in body fat, not muscle mass.
In fact, a large number of studies have similar findings: when relying on exercise to lose weight, some people do lose weight, while many others’ weight actually increases or remains the same….