Gym junkies are fighting a losing battle against obesity, say scientists.
Aussie researchers have blamed the world’s obesity epidemic on people eating more and not on people exercising less.
Obesity epidemic could have been avoided if people simply ate less.
Changes in physical activity played a minimal role.
Scientists found evidence to suggest people were actually exercising more now.
Food intake still explains the weight gain, but there may have been increases in physical activity over 30 years that have blunted what would otherwise have been a higher weight gain.