This week, I read about a study involving nearly 44,000 overweight teenagers that concluded the kids didn’t understand the weight-loss equation of calories in < calories out.
In the study, the girls who exercised continued to drink soda daily (thus offsetting the calorie deficit caused by the exercise), and many of the boys didn’t exercise at all, in favor of playing video games for THREE HOURS A DAY.
I’m no scientist, and I’m certainly no researcher. But it seems to me that math isn’t the teens’ problem. Rather, there’s a work-ethic problem that's derailing their weight-loss progress.
Truly, who doesn’t know that drinking soda and playing three hours of video games every day probably isn’t going to help you lose weight? It looks like these kids wanted to reap the rewards without making sacrifices. Yes, I know many
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