Comment by Kirby64

21 days ago

Is this somehow new information? I thought it’s been known for years (decades?) that increasing physical activity also increases daily energy use. The “metabolic adaption” that people discuss is merely a fractional reduction in NEAT expenditure that compensates partially but not completely in caloric expenditure. You’ll always burn more calories by doing exercise vs not, I don’t know why this would be new science.

It's become controversial because of the politics of weight loss, and the media's addiction to "counterintuitive research shows".