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Article: Q: IS IT TRUE THAT YOU BURN FAT BETTER WHEN EXERCISING AT A LOWER HEART RATE?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2004
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M.M., Boston
No. What counts for losing weight is "the total number of calories
burned," said Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Center for
Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University's Friedman School
of Nutrition Science and Policy. It's "bogus," she added, to think
that some type or intensity of exercise will burn fat while others
will not.
Dr. George Blackburn, associate director of the Division of
Nutrition at Harvard Medical School, emphatically agreed: "There is
no such thing as fat-burning exercise as opposed to some other kind."
What is true is that the percentages of fuel burned change during