Everything You Know Is Wrong

[dianec42]

OHSU Research Reveals Activity Levels—Not Food Intake—Most Strongly Correlates With Weight Gain In Adulthood

"PORTLAND, Ore. – Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center reveals that an individual’s activity level is the most constant factor in predicting weight gain over adulthood. In addition, the research startlingly found no strong correlation between caloric intake and weight gain. The research was released online this week prior to future publication in the American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. ....."

Verrrrrry innnteresting.

Comments

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

When I got out of school (walking MILES a day and climbing lots of hills and staircases) and got a desk job is when I started gaining weight.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Years ago I had a live-in girlfriend who was an excellent cook; that was when I began to put on the pounds.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

But is it a positive or negative correlation???

[nosebeepbear.livejournal.com]

I should show this to the orthopedist who insisted that my mobility problems had nothing to do with my trouble in losing weight. It all has to do with calories, says he, not exercise. Bull.

[xthread.livejournal.com]

WTF?!

Um, perhaps a different orthopedist might be indicated?

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Didn't we already know this? My dad has been telling me this for years. Not that it's helpled any. :-)

And: Primate research center? How do they get a monkey to sit at a desk, I ask you?

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

That reminds me...gym sometime soon? :)

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Some of us knew this already. Others of us have an elaborate mythos about food and calories.

*wonders what the plural of mythos is*

And of course, it's all "in the aggregate". On a planet with 6 billion people, there are bound to be a few million outliers.