Obesity afflicts many people, with a study published earlier this year in the medical journal The Lancet showing that more than 1 billion people — or roughly one out of eight people alive today — struggles with the condition. Along with the social stigma associated with being “fat,” obesity comes with a heightened risk for a wide range of health issues including heart attacks, diabetes, strokes, fatty liver diseases, metabolic disorders, sleep apnea and various types of cancer.
Conventional wisdom dictates that, for these people to lose weight, they need to eat better and exercise more. Yet a recent study in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that at least part of this equation doesn't help as much as conventional wisdom would suggest. In fact, this research found people who vigorously exercise usually experience a drop in body temperature and non-exercise physical activity (NEPA). As a result, they wind up gaining weight.
