What’s Best for Weight Loss: Diet of Exercise?

What’s the best way to lose weight, dieting or exercising? Geezer has no clue, but in this piece in the Boston Globe,  Eric Ravussin, a physiologist who has done the research, offers his informed opinion: it doesn’t matter. Ravussin divided three dozen overweight but healthy men and women
into three groups. One group reduced their calorie intake by 25
percent. Another group cut calories by half as much (12.5 percent)
while increasing energy output through exercise by 12.5 percent; and
the third group made no diet or exercise changes. The researchers
looked at weight loss, body composition, and measures of superficial
and deep fat. They found that it doesn’t matter whether people lose
weight by diet or by exercise or a combination, although exercise has
the important benefit of improving cardiovascular health. Read more in the Boston Globe.