Exercising Vs Dieting to reduce the body weight

Here are the reasons why exercise - not dieting - is the good method of losing body fat:

1. Exercise – aerobic and weight training - raises your metabolic rate.
Dieting decreases your metabolic rate.

2. Exercise creates a caloric deficit without triggering the starvation
response.

3. Exercise is good for your health. Dieting is harmful to your health.

4. Exercise, especially weight training, signals your body to keep your
muscle and not burn it for energy. Dieting without exercise can result
in up to 50% of the weight loss to come from lean body mass.

5. Exercise increases fat-burning enzymes and hormones. Dieting
decreases fat burning hormones and increases fat storing
hormones.

6. Exercise increases the cells sensitivity to insulin so that
carbohydrates are burned for energy and stored as glycogen rather
then being stored as

So, If someone tries to sell you a program for losing weight and it doesn’t
include exercise (it’s just a “diet”), hold on to your wallet and run for cover.
Even if you could get lean without exercise, you should be working out for
your health anyway, not just for cosmetic reasons.

Courtesy: http://www.global-fitness.com