Reply #103: Please stop posting nonsense about people having control over what happens as a result of exercise--

[eridani]

--and switching to healthier eating habits. Such changes may result in noticable weight loss, or maybe not. That part isn't within your control. Notable in Ethan Allan Sim's Vermont Prison Studies (which tested the effects of deliberate overeating and activity restriction on weight gain) were the people who did NOT return to their starting weights after they stopped overeating. All had previously unknown family histories of Type II diabetes.

People with Syndrome X tend toward weight gain in adulthood and Type II diabestes, and almost never succeed in maintaining significant weight loss. Yet for these people even modest amounts of regular exercise can postpone the onset of diabetic symptoms and improve blood sugar control in those who become symptomatic. What you are doing here is telling the people who by far benefit the most from exercise is that they are worthless failures if blood sugar control is the only result, and not observable weigbt loss.