{"id":1525,"date":"2010-06-15T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2010-06-15T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:40:32","slug":"nutrition-vs-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/15\/nutrition-vs-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition vs. exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over my quick breakfast in the morning (and on the loo *g*) I tend to read magazines that I get sent home &#8211; Amnesty International, WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Sanitas (my health insurance). And in the latter I read a rather interesting article today, which surprised me by being pretty well-balanced and non-judgmental.<\/p>\n<p>It was titled (in German, of course) &#8216;Exercise beats nutrition&#8217; and contained a long interview with a nutritionist and a sports scientist. Basically, the said that, that being active\/exercising regularly is much more important for good health and long life than dieting\/weight. It was so refreshing to see scientists, in a publication from an insurance company at that, denounce the BMI (Body Mass Index) as out-moded and even dangerous and saying that someone &#8216;overweight&#8217; could easily be healthier than someone skinny as long as they were active. They also said that food should be fun, not calory counting.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the article is still somewhat problematic because it addresses only the able-bodied who have a choice whether to be sedentary or active. But still, it makes me hope that maybe our society will move away from the obsession that low weight automatically equals a healthy body.<\/p>\n<ul><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Health_at_Every_Size\" target=\"new\">Health at Every Size<\/A> (Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/\" target=\"new\">The Fat Nutritionist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kateharding.net\/\" target=\"new\">Shapely Prose<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harrietbrown.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"new\">Feed Me!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-f-word.org\/blog\/\" target=\"new\">The F-Word<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over my quick breakfast in the morning (and on the loo *g*) I tend to read magazines that I get sent home &#8211; Amnesty International, WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Sanitas (my health insurance). And in the latter I read a rather interesting article today, which surprised me by being pretty well-balanced and non-judgmental. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}