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Answer:
The answer
to this question is both true and false.
It all depends on how you look at it.
Walking
can claim to burn more fat because, of
the total percentage of calories that
you burn while walking, most come from
fat. This is true of all low-intensity
exercise.
For example,
say you walk for 60 minutes and burn 200
total calories. The percentage of fat
burned for energy is between 60 - 80%,
depending on a number of outside factors.
We'll use the 80% for simplicity.
When you
take 80% of 200 this means you've burned
160 fat calories. Remember this number.
Now let's
look at running/jogging. Of the total
percentage of calories you burn running,
around 30-50% generally comes from fat.
Using the
same example as above, say you run for
that same 60 minutes and burn 600 calories.
Using the 50% number, you've just burned
300 fat calories - 140 more than walking
and in a shorter time.
The examples
show the effect of perspective on the
answer. Walking burns more fat as a percentage
of total calories burned but running/jogging
burns more fat calories when you look
at the actual number of fat calories burned.
It basically
all comes down to exercise intensity.
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