Young People Need to Eat Less and Exercise More Than Their Parents to Keep a Healthy Weight

Turns out, millenials today have to eat less and exercise more in order to maintain a healthy weight, compared to what their parents had to back in the day.

That’s what new research from York University in Toronto claims, finding that weight management today has become much more challenging than ever. Maintaining a healthy weight isn’t about exercise and dieting any more — additional factors have to be considered.

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Research findings discovered that our lifestyle, environment, medication use, environmental pollutants, genetics, timing of food intake, stress, gut bacteria and even night-time light exposure are all factors that affect our weight.

These additional factors, they say, might be the leading cause in the country’s rise in obesity.

The results also suggest that the long-held belief that weight control is solely based on food and exercise is too simplistic and not accurate.

The study will be published in Obesity Research & Clinical Practice.