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Regular exercise and weight management: myths and reality.(MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR)

Publication: AMAA Journal
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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It is so easy to set up straw men and then knock them down. And so comes along journalist Gary Taubes. These days he is best known for being, in his book Good Calories, Bad Calories (New York City: Knopf, 2007), the latest promoter of eating lots of fat to lose weight. On October 1, 2007, he...

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...furthered his crusade against nutrition and exercise science in New York magazine by proclaiming "Why Most of Us Believe that Exercise Makes Us Thinner--and Why We're Wrong." Boy that is a mouthful. And talk about wrong--but not in the way he makes use of the word. Rather he is wrong because he spends most of his article misinterpreting the studies of a variety of scientists. Additionally, his opening reveals just how little he actually knows...

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