[GOP Poet]

Both help. Exercise and diet together are my secrets to having a youthful, lithe, strong body in my mind forties. One without the other has never brought long term results as much as the combination. This article is really lacking a full spectrum picture. I love how you mention ALL the exercise you did and then said it was the food. It is about calories in and calories out. They work together. Your comment is a good example.

[LTCJ]

a youthful, lithe, strong body in my mind forties

Oh, sure. But litheness is the leading cause of jelliness in the spelling center of the brain. Always the first to go. ;^)

[BellStar]

I did the exercise after I lost most of my weight. I was slow to add the exercise out of ignorance. I know as a white female over 50 and small boned (most susceptible group) with a mom and grand-mom with severe osteoporosis. That is my drive to keep up the exercise! I have been tested and so far don't have even ostopenia (sp?) and I think that's the exercise factor. I have keept the weight off by keeping at about 1200 Calories 6 day's with a day off a week where anythig goes.