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{What I am about to write does not apply to those with an underlying medical or hormonal condition. I advise anyone embarking on a weight loss and fitness plan to have a thorough medical evaluation. You want to be sure that you are physically able to exercise and you don’t have any underlying medical conditions.}
Once again, the formerly fat radio windbag Rush Limbaugh, I’m going to assume he has kept off the weight he lost last year. I haven’t seen any pictures since his wedding photos were release and old Rushbo looked kind of chunky then. Either way, one thing that hasn’t changed, fat still remains lodged in his brain, at least when it comes to genuine health and fitness information.
Limbaugh started his show today discussing some nutrition professor from the midwest who went on a snack food diet. To summarize, this academic, decided to test a hypothesis that it doesn’t matter what you eat, it is just about total calories and caloric deficit.
I don’t think anyone in health care, or those like myself who promote weight loss and fitness, would argue that a caloric deficit will cause weight loss. It does. However, why the hell would anyone want to get by on a meager 1800 calories a day? And honestly, why would anyone want to eat chemically enhanced sugary stuff all day?
Furthermore, Rush claimed the guy did not exercise much. Well looking at the class room lecturer’s picture, that is kind of obvious.
So, once again, Rush Limbaugh, radio talk-jock extraordinaire, is attempting to branch out from being a radio entertainer and trying to discuss a topic beyond his intellect.
The referenced academic has demonstrated some short-term results and benefits over something like two months. I discuss my improvements in blood work and vital signs over an eighteen month period, not a month or two. Also, I conquered genuine obesity. I started off weighing in at over 340 pounds. Dropping a few pounds, on a short time calorie restricted diet, really isn’t much to crow about.
Anyone with any intellectual honesty is not going to promote a snack food diet as a healthy way of life. Shoveling junk into one’s gullet is not going to provide for a fit and healthy body.
Common sense and true fathers of fitness are prime examples. Bernarr McFadden lived into his 80′s without ever seeing a doctor. Jack LaLanne is still out promoting fitness in his 90′s. Those who have dedicated themselves to a life of health and fitness may live longer, but what is more important is that they live better.
Yes you can lose weight without exercise. Yes you can lose weight via limiting caloric intake. However, will you be healthier? Will you be more fit?
Do I really need to answer? Okay, I will. NO!
Think of the pure junk you are introducing into your body every time you ingest a snack food. Read the label. Try reading it out loud and see if you can pronounce the garbage with which you are polluting yourself.
The lazy among us desperately try to take exercise out of the equation. They suggest that simply losing weight is enough. Dropping poundage is a start, but if you want to genuinely improve your health, it is not the sole portion of the equation. Exercise, both progressive resistance and endurance, must be part of your daily life.
What concerns me most about Limbaugh, is that his misinformation will be spread to many who take what this radio hosts says as gospel. We are desperately trying to reach obese adults and children and trying to save their lives. To give them an improved quality of life. Yet, with Limbaugh’s reach more can be harmed in one segment of his show via his misinformation.
Rush Limbaugh, bloviating buffoon that he is, claims he likes to stir the conventional wisdom pot and then claim to be right. Well the fact is that he is wrong. Rush claims weight loss is influenced only by what you eat and exercise is irrelevant. Again, you can just lose weight, but you will not reach optimal health and wellness. You will not make long term changes to your weight. You won’t achieve a fit human form.
Rush claims that us on the low carb diets eat less because we lose our appetite. I’ve got news for big Rush. I don’t eat any less than I did when I started my journey. I eat five to six times a day and not what one would consider smaller portions. It is the physiologic effect that allowed me to lose wieght and it is the physiologic effect that allows me to remain fit. My appetite is not suppressed in the least.
Rush’s up and down battle with obesity is a clear demonstration of what happens when you omit the exercise portion of the equation.
So, will just cutting calories cause weight loss? Yep, you will drop weight and if you started off obese as Rush or myself, then you will look like a thinner unfit Rush Limbaugh — If I were gonna look like the thinner Rush Limbaugh, I would rather stay fat!
The problem is not so much that exercise doesn’t work to lose or even help you control your weight–which is true but not explanatory–the problem is that the people who exercise are a little slow because the time they would otherwise spend reading, or discussing the news of the day, or in study or professional development, they spend pulling, pushing, or heaving at machines that improve the body, but fail to edify the soul.
You will not regret forgoing that extra push-up on your death-bed.
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