Exercise: Is More Always Better?
By Kathleen Doheny
If a little exercise is good, then more is better in terms of calorie burn and weight loss, right? That's what most of us tend to believe.
But it's not necessarily true, a research team says. They found that people who exercise a lot don’t burn extra calories for their efforts beyond a certain point. Their new study is published in Current Biology.
Don’t drop that gym membership just yet, though. WebMD asked two experts to discuss these findings and the role of exercise.
The experts include the study’s lead researcher, Herman Pontzer, PhD, a professor of anthropology at City University of New York, and Edward L. Melanson, PhD, an associate professor in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.