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"So here&amp;#x27;s some bummer news in the world of research: a new study has shown that exercise doesn&amp;#x27;t boost your metabolism. The New York Times has a fascinating article about diet vs. weight loss, calling out a study which found that we sedentary Westerners actually have the same metabolic rate as the always-on-the-move, hunter-gatherer tribe of the Hadza in Tanzania. Meaning: the tribespeople are lean because they don&amp;#x27;t eat junk the way we do, not because they&amp;#x27;re way more physically active than we are. The study underscores new research by The Center for Quantitative Obesity Research at Montclair State University, which monitored exercise, food intake and metabolic rates of volunteers as they lost weight. The results: the volunteers&amp;#x27; basal metabolic rates--or the amount of calories they&amp;#x27;d burn if they did nothing but sit on a couch all day--dropped as they lost weight. So even though they were burning 500 calories a day with exercise, their total daily calorie burn was actually less than it would have been if their metabolism hadn&amp;#x27;t changed, and they ended up losing less weight than they thought they would. Diana Thomas, one of the study&amp;#x27;s authors, says that most weight-loss calculations and formulas don&amp;#x27;t take this metabolic dip into consideration. That makes it frustrating when you&amp;#x27;re closely monitoring your calorie intake and exercise levels, but still not getting the results you expected. So she&amp;#x27;s developed this new, more realistic weight-loss calculator that takes the dip into account. Reports the NYT: The predictions are proving accurate, she says, and although her forecast is for less weight loss than that under the old formula, the volunteers are pleased. &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s better to meet lower expectations,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;than to be disappointed that you&amp;#x27;re not losing what you supposedly should.&amp;quot; What do you think? Do you buy the idea that exercise doesn&amp;#x27;t give you a metabolic boost? And did you try out the calculator? More on weight loss news: * New Documentary Takes Aim at A Harrowing Stat: 69 Percent of American Adults Are Obese * Where Are YOU on the Global Fat Scale? * Health Controversy: New Study Says Obese Friends Make You Gain Weight Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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