Swedish "Super Size Me" fails to replicate Spurlock's results

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Originally posted by: everman
This part is interesting:

"The students managed to gain between 5-15% extra weight over the month."

What I think is important is understanding why the range is so large, assuming they ate similar foods.

The study doesn't mention the age of the participants. Your metabolism begins to slow down as you grow older, usually after the age of 30. Coming from a university, I believe most if not all the test subjects, were under the age of 30. If they were in their mid-20's, then of course they aren't going to achieve the same results as Spurlock with him being 33 years old.

Edit: Actually the article does mention the age of the seven participants. They were in their early twenties. It doesn't invalidate the study but it doesn't prove that Spurlock was a hack either.

 

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Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
strenuous exercise will burn out alot of the excess salts and calories

Depends on your idea of strenuous exercise. SS( steady state) cardio does little during the exercise and has almost no EPOC and the body quickly adapts so the affect of SS cardio becomes negligible in short order.

HIIT (high intensity interval training) has a two hour EPOC window, but you're still not talking about a whole lot of calories burned. It's main appeal is that it prevents muscle loss because it's an anaerobic exercise, as opposed to aerobic SS cardio.

Free weights in a high volume full-body compound workout are shown to work best, but few trainers will know that. They get their little cert and begin telling people all kinds of wild stories while putting their clients through the most idiotoc "functional" or isolation workouts.

Also, I asked Aragon about the salt idea, he said yeah, you bleed off some, but not as much as I would have thought or wanted, so salt intake should still be monitored. Most times, you don't need to add extra salt, but it helps to retain water during workouts.

http://forums.jpfitness.com/showpost.php?p=361549&postcount=28

 

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I hate to point this out, but it's a repost... maybe the nightcrew didn't see the other one, I recall seeing it during the day =p