if you want to lose weight, you don’t necessarily have to go for a long run. “Just get rid of your chair.”

There was a fascinating article in Sunday's New York Times about the relationship between diet and exercise in remaining thin. The net of the article was that extreme physical exercise creates an appetite that is greater than the calories expended in working out, and that lower impact, less strenuous exercise over time is more effective because it does not drive the appetite.

It is always good to see some nuance in the coverage of weight loss issues. Too often coverage defaults to a sound bite that demonizes one food or behavior, rather than putting that in the context of everyone's real life. The article itself also mentions how America's Puritan approach to diet and exercise may be counter productive.

Very interesting...