The premise of the article seemed provocative enough: despite convention wisdom, exercise does not do a whole lot to help people lose weight. Written by Time Magazine’s John Cloud, the article loosely strings together a series of anecdotes and studies to argue that exercise, in the end, isn’t worth all the hype. It even goes further to suggest that in addition to not causing weight loss, exercise can actually result in weight gain because of increase hunger after workouts.
Such health trend pieces are common in mainstream journalism — headlines that challenge whatever commonly-held health belief we’ve harbored over the last decade or so. The piece hit the web over a week ago and within days over a hundred blogs had linked to it, many of which reacted negatively to its premise. Dozens of health and fitness bloggers were not happy that the magazine was pushing a theory that exercise wasn’t very beneficial.
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