 When trying to lose weight, which is most important, diet or exercise? This is what a survey found recently. The vast majority of those trying to lose or maintain weight believe that both monitoring food and beverage and shumpton and physical activity are equally important in weight management and weight loss. Most people go with equally important, then exercise, and then diet, and most people are wrong. That is one of the most common misconceptions about obesity in this recent review, the confusion about the leverage of exercise on body weight. Unfortunately, the energy balance equation, you know, calories in have to equal calories out, suggests that energy intake and energy expenditure occupy equivalent roles in determining energy balance, when in fact the factors governing energy intakes influence the energy balance far more powerfully than the factors determining, you know, resting energy expenditures. What we put in our mouths is most important. For example, to walk off the calories found in a single pad of butter, you'd have to add an extra 700 yards to your stroll that evening. A quarter mile jog for each sardine we put in our mouths, and that's just the edible part. And those who choose to eat two chicken legs better get out on their own two legs and run an extra three miles that day to outrun weight gain. And that's for steamed chicken skin removed.