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The article pretty confidently states that exercise has been found not to help with weight loss per this study
But if you click through to the actual study…they specifically excluded all athletes from their samples, and all of these exclusions were from the “high human development index” areas. They also excluded any samples from people with diseases except obesity, which was kept.
I haven’t really had the chance today to read this too carefully, but, wouldn’t that paint a pretty distorted picture?
Yeah it's pretty sketchy to stretch the claim that far based on their data. It's also just a hard sell when you can very easily observe the typical caloric intake of professional athletes and note how high it can get without any sign of obesity. But the general point still does seem to stand, you can't just start working out and expect to lose a bunch of weight without also adjusting what you eat.