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Exercise as a weight-loss strategy

Most people who start exercising lose fewer pounds than would be expected

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Gretchen Reynolds | NYT
Some types of exercise may be better than others at blunting appetite and potentially aiding in weight management, according to an interesting new study of workouts and hunger. It finds that pushing yourself during exercise affects appetite, sometimes in surprising ways.
 
As anyone who has begun an exercise programme knows, the relationships between exercise, appetite, weight control and hunger are complex and often counterintuitive.
 
The arithmetic involved seems straightforward. You burn calories during exercise and, over time, should drop pounds. But the reality is more vexing. In both scientific studies and the world inhabited by the rest of

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