Diet, exercise take off equal pounds?

This is exactly the type of medical reporting that I dislike. This CNN article focuses on a recent study that indicated that dieting and exercise have the same affect on weight loss. A calorie not eaten is the same as a calorie burned off by running. The study also produced data that suggests that gaining muscle mass does not increase metabolic activity and lead to further weight loss, as many Bowflex advertisements would have you believe. Now, I have no problem with relaying the results of this study to the general public, nor do I disagree with any of the findings. I just can't stand the typical end-of-article turnaround that plagues health reporting:

"Ravussin believes exercise is crucial to health, however. 'For overall health, an appropriate program of diet and exercise is still the best,' he said."

Are you kidding me? You just spent an entire article that clearly was meant to shock its readers with the stunning revelation that you can be just as thin by eating lettuce as you can by running 28 hours a day and now you're going to make an obligatory reference to the benefits of a balanced and healthy lifestyle? If an appropriate program is still the best, what exactly makes this news? CNN is praying on a nation obsessed with any new piece of information about dieting and I find it very frustrating.