# How important is glucose flattening? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-glucose-flattening/988660 "2023-08-16T15:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 122
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-glucose-flattening/988660/122 "2023-09-06T18:43:31Z")
That completely ignores the difference in resting metabolism between a couch potato and someone who is only moderately active. Yes, walking or treadmilling for 30 minutes will offset only a few nuts. But the elevation in your basal metabolic rate for the other 23-1/2 hours due to regular exercise will do the “heavy lifting” of burning a lot more calories. And, as you say, altering what your body does with the calories you do take in. It is a truism in sports nutrition that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet. But it is also true that regular exercise goes a long way to converting an OK diet into a good one. And within reason, more exercise tends to result in less desire to eat crap. Eating less crap also makes exercising more easier. There are a LOT of mutually reinforcing feedback loops for good or ill in human behavior, nutrition, and conditioning. Any time somebody trots out the “calories in minus calories out = weight gain (loss)” argument they’ve demonstrated they’re looking at the foam in the bathwater, not the baby or even all the water. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-important-is-glucose-flattening/988660)._