Physical activity has little role in tackling obesity – and instead, public health messages should squarely focus on unhealthy eating, doctors say.
In an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, three international experts said it was time to “bust the myth” about exercise.
They said, “While activity was a key part of staving off diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia, its impact on obesity was minimal.”
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London Cardiologist, Dr Aseem Malhotra, blamed the food industry for encouraging the belief that exercise could counteract the impact of unhealthy eating.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist, said, “An obese person does not need to do one iota of exercise to lose weight, they just need to eat less.”
The experts even likened their tactics as “chillingly similar” to those of Big Tobacco on smoking and said celebrity endorsements of sugary drinks and that the association of junk food and sport must end.
Public health messaging had, “unhelpfully” focused on maintaining a healthy weight through calorie counting when it was the source of calories that mattered most. Research has shown that diabetes increases 11-fold for every 150 additional sugar calories consumed, compared to fat calories.
And they pointed to evidence from the Lancet global burden of disease programme that shows unhealthy eating is linked to more ill health than physical activity, alcohol and smoking combined.
Dr Malhotra said: “An obese person does not need to do one iota of exercise to lose weight, they just need to eat less. My biggest concern is that the message that is being fed to the public suggests you can eat what you like as long as you exercise. That is unscientific and wrong. You cannot outrun a bad diet.”
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