An understanding of fat burning exercise and nutrition are both vital to achieve and sustain permanent weight loss and fat reduction. But does exercise or nutrition have a bigger affect on weight loss? Scientific studies have been conducted to determine the answer.

Weight Loss Studies

There have only been a few studies to establish whether fat burning exercise or nutrition has a bigger impact on fat burning. As few studies like this had been conducted, scientists followed them closely.

They studied people who moved from big cities to the suburbs, and the reverse, to determine the affect of the move on the weight of the subjects. The diet regimens of city dwellers and suburbanites were similar. There was little that was unexpected in the findings.

Findings from the studies 

  • within the first year of moving from a city to the suburbs, the participants in the studies gained, on average, 15 pounds
  • within the first six to eight months of moving to a city from the suburbs, the subjects in the studies lost an average of 15 pounds

The main conclusion of the studies was as follows: The subjects living in a city did more walking than the subjects living in the suburbs. While subjects living in the suburbs rode in a car to get to wherever they wanted to go (supermarket or school etc), subjects in the city often walked there. This accounted for the change of weight.

Recognized experts agree that exercise has a greater bearing on losing weight than your diet. To give you an idea of how diet and exercise each affect weight loss, it has been said that it is 65% - 35% in favor of exercise.

If you want to get rid of the excess weight and fat on your body, you will need to exercise as well as pay attention to nutrition. But the consumate human being and the consummate world does not exist.

Even if you havent moved from or to a city, does the study results have meaning for you?

Can you burn fat and lose weight permanently if:

  • you follow the right exercise routine, but do not change your diet?
  • you dont do any exercise, but you are doing a well known weight loss diet?
  • you only somewhat abide by the direction provided for nutrition and exercise?

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