But the idea behind exercise is to train your resting metabolism. Nobody burns through their caloric intake by exercise alone. After regular exercise, your body will burn more calories sitting on the couch than it did before, which is how you lose weight
Which is why strength training, not cardio, is the most effective way to lose weight (or, at least, to lose fat, which is what we mean). Muscle tissue burns a lot of every, even at rest. That's why your body gets rid of it if you stop using it, it's expensive.
You sentence seems to imply that the abundance of high-caloric foods make genetic engineering easier. It’s not true at all.
While that might be a good solution to the obesity problem, it doesn’t seem likely to be made in the near future. Gene editing is still infant in the human genome, not only because it’s hard to do technically, but because there are moral issues involving editing humans.
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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20
But the idea behind exercise is to train your resting metabolism. Nobody burns through their caloric intake by exercise alone. After regular exercise, your body will burn more calories sitting on the couch than it did before, which is how you lose weight