Exercise may not help you lose weight!

If you thought spending hours in a gym every day would help you slim down, think again! A new study suggests that exercise may not prevent weight gain. Study results indicate that physical activity may not protect you from gaining weight.

While physical activity burns calories, it also increases appetite, and people may compensate by eating more or by being less active the rest of the day.

The researchers did not find any significant relationships between sedentary time at the initial visit and subsequent weight gain or weight loss.The only factors that were significantly associated with weight gain were weight at the initial visit, age and gender, the study said.