This week, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association received a lot of undeserved media attention. The study wanted to examine the relationship between exercise and long-term weight changes among women who were eating a normal diet (i.e. not dieting). It followed for over a decade 34,000 women who were 45 years old or older and correlated their self-reported physical activity and body weight.
The study found that on average, the women gained about 6 lb during...
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