Health and Fitness

After reading the Time article “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin”, you can easily come away with the impression that exercise has little effect on weight loss, or may be the cause of you gaining more weight. Even though I agree that exercise alone will not make you thin – unless of course you have the time to exercise several hours each day-, the article’s somewhat dismissive tone that exercise is of little value in losing weight is false.

Yes, if you look at exercising from the point of view of the studies used in the article to make the argument of exercise’s limited effect on weight loss, then their assessment is true. Numerous studies have shown that exercise alone has a limited effect on weight loss, so in that aspect their argument is true.

However, the major study used in the article to make the argument about exercise’s effect on weigh…