Playing games does not help your weight loss efforts

Feature Article: Playing games does not help your weight loss efforts By Winston Ng, Phenogy Health Advisors Have you ever wondered why some fat people can be playing tennis, swimming and jogging often, yet they never lose weight? Many overweight people began playing tennis, walking, running or swimming because they were told that these activities are aerobic and therefore, beneficial to weight loss. So, is it really true that aerobic activities promote weight loss? Technically it is true that aerobic programmes do help. However, what constitutes an aerobic activity is the real issue of contention. In recent years, any weight loss program must include an aerobic activity component. Hence, many sports advocates attempt to remake their sport to appear to be an aerobic activity to ride on this wave of popularity. The tennis, jogging, walking, running, swimming, golf industries all want a share of this aerobic market. However, the truth is that no sport can EVER be classified as an aerobic or non-aerobic activity. Let