You can not burn it off later.
It is not rational to think that you can eat whatever you want and go exercise it off later. Different types of foods cause different types of chemical reactions inside your body. Some of these reactions can be helpful, some of these reactions can be harmful.
So how did you develop heart disease? If you figured you could eat anything you wanted and just burn it off, you see now that doesn’t work. Eating any added sugar and sugar syrups, and any grain that isn’t 100 percent whole, damages vital body systems even if you’re not overweight. And repeatedly exercising for more than two hours at a clip may increase calcification (stiffening) of the arteries and plaque deposits along blood vessel walls.
This study supports my thoughts on different types of food intake.
Exercise might be best understood as a drug with powerful benefits, especially for cardiovascular health. As with any potent drug, establishing the safe and effective dose range is critically important—an inadequately low dose may not confer full benefits, whereas an excessive dose might produce harmful effects that outweigh its benefits. Running marathons for decades may be an excessive amount of exercise, possibly predisposing to an increase coronary artery plaque buildup despite favorably altering many risk factors such as weight, blood pressure and risk of diabetes. A more moderate dose of exercise might be a better strategy for promoting long-term cardiovascular health and durability.
Published April 3, 2014
James H. O'Keefe, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist at Cardiovascular Consultants and Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.
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