There is a long-held belief that taking 10,000 steps a day will help you shed a lot of weight. Numerous trainers, experts, and even doctors have advocated for people to walk off excess weight.
However, a new study reported by the British newspaper “The Independent” on the Obesity patrol denied this theory, and revealed that walking does not lead to weight loss, according to what the newspaper reported.
In collaboration with specialists from the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, researchers from Brigham Young University’s Department of Exercise Sciences studied a group of freshmen.
Analysis of the data of 120 students during the first six months of university study, participating in the experience of counting steps, which ranged between 10,000, 12500 or 15,000 steps per day over 6 days a week for 24 weeks.
The researchers demonstrated that even among the posts who were walking 15,000 steps per day, the amount of steps did not prevent study participants from gaining excess weight.
According to the earlier research cited, it was also discovered at the conclusion of the study period that the students had gained an average of 1.5 kg, which is the additional weight that is typically accumulated during the first year of college.
While the researchers wrote that “the lack of reduction in weight between groups of posts according to the number of steps is a sudden result, because physical activity increases gradually with each step and in turn leads to an increase in consumption and changes energy balance in the body. ”
As a result of the study’s findings, Brigham Young University physical science professor Bruce Billy, the study’s principal investigator, came to the conclusion that “exercise by itself is not necessarily the most efficient strategy to lose weight.
If you take the recommended actions, you might benefit from an increase in physical activity. However, the study’s findings indicated that increasing or decreasing one’s step count will not affect one’s weight.
A disappointing discovery: Losing weight does not always result from walking.
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