Want to lose pounds? Do cardio, studies show

Want to lose pounds? Do cardio, studies show:

So the two women routinely began to lift weights. But like many of the other 36 million women nationwide who each year pick up dumbbells hoping to lose pounds or develop a sculptured body, both Woodworth and Rivera ended up disappointed because the strategy is not as simple — or as effective — as it sounds.
Personal trainers, fitness instructors, magazines and books have sold a double-barreled promise that any strength training builds muscle and that having more muscle dramatically speeds metabolism, increasing the calories a person burns while at rest. With all that extra calorie burning, the story goes, excess weight comes off effortlessly.
The story is wrong in two ways, researchers say. First, muscle is not such an amazing calorie burner.

and it looks like another “common idea we know to be true” may well not be…

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