Effects of Even Brief Overeating Hard to Overcome

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This is a very interesting study- It basically shows that overeating and lack of exercise have long term effects even after people clean up their diet and resume exercising. Psychologically, it becomes easier to see why many people seem to struggle with permanent weight loss. In the US where practically everyone overeats significantly, you can see what a problem this creates. I suspect that once people get used to overeating, it is very hard for them to ever return to a diet that actually allows them to lose all the weight they have gained.

The article doesn’t say what kind of exercise the people engaged in but my experience is that high intensity resistance weight training does exactly the opposite of what this experiment showed and physiologically changes a persons metabolism.

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The effects of a sedentary, gluttonous lifestyle are hard to shake, even after the person has become an upstanding, healthy individual, a new Swedish study suggests.

Researchers found that even a short period of overeating and a lack of exercise can have lasting effects on a person’s physiology and make it harder to lose weight and keep it off.

Eighteen healthy people of normal weight were given the arduous task of limiting their physical activity (to no more than 5,000 steps a day) and increasing their food intake for four weeks. The participants in this so-called intervention group ate 70 percent more food, for a total of about 5,753 calories a day, over the study period.

However, one year after the study period, those individuals still had more body fat than they did at the study’s start.