Formosa Fitness

Here we go again. Read the mass media and be even more misinformed than if you didn't.

So here we have another New York Times article that gets almost everything wrong. As usual. You couldn't stack this one with more nonsense if you tried. It's all here: exercise doesn't help weight loss, the fat burning zone exists, etc., etc. The research talked about in the piece looks set up purposely not to burn fat and then....surprise, surprise.....the participants didn't lose much weight. Therefore extra post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), otherwise known as afterburn, supposedly doesn't exist. Brilliant. The researchers quoted even said they deliberately made the exercise easy -- cycling at 55% capacity. Yes, 55%!!! No wonder the exercisers didn't lose weight. How could they?

If any friends or relatives read this garbage then you'e going to have to spend a lot of your time showing them the fallacies of the piece. Every time this happens we get taken back a notch in fighting obesity. As if it wasn't hard enough already.

Sorry for the negativity. Hopefully the next post will be more positive.