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In one of his articles Ray Cronise gave some numbers that even with light jogging or even fast walking for fuel body uses carbohydrates exclusively. So cardio exercises are a bad way to loose weight. They made people hungry. And as people eat all the fat from the food is stored as body fat and may not be burned until the next exercise.

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That's pretty much it; although at higher intensities the calories per unit time is higher, the higher the intensity the more comes from short-term stores (glycogen) than from long-term (fat).

The numbers suggest 60 to 70 per cent of max heartrate (which is pretty easy) is the sweet spot for general fitness and fat burning (i.e. weight loss). For improved endurance, spend a lot of time in that zone; for improved performance spend shorter periods (well) above it.