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So all that we thought about exercising and weight loss turns out to be a myth. Michael Mosley, the brain behind the popular 5:2 diet and co-author of book ‘The Fast Diet’, claimed on a television show appearing on a British channel that exercise may be a good way to stay away from putting on weight but it definitely does not aid weight loss. He, in fact, stated that exercise could lead to weight gain.

According to him, exercise surely burns calories but at a much slower rate that what people assume. He suggested that the secret to lose weight is not exercising but consuming lesser calories in the first place. ‘One pound (around half a kg) of fat is 3,500 calories — and fat is more energy-dense than dynamite — so to burn one pound of fat you would need to run about 38 miles (61.15km),’ he was quoted as saying by Daily Mail. ‘That is why people never lose weight going to the gym in the long-run,’ he noted.

Source: IANS

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