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'Pontzer's findings have huge implications for our attitudes to
exercise, diet and public health' Mark Webster, Sunday Times A
myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a
pioneering evolutionary biologist 'Public health strategies
stubbornly cling to the simplistic armchair engineer's view of
metabolism, hurting efforts to combat obesity, diabetes, heart
disease, cancer, and the other diseases that are most likely to
kill us' Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed
how, contrary to received wisdom, exercise does not increase our
metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range:
nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. In
this book, he draws on twenty years of cutting-edge science to take
a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn
explores the ways in which metabolism controls every aspect of our
health - from fertility to immune function - and reveals the truth
about the dynamic system that sustains us. Filled with facts and
memorable anecdotes, this book will change the way you think about
food, exercise and what really matters for your health.
Reconstructing Human Origins is the most authoritative,
comprehensive, and popular paleoanthropology textbook available.
Respected anthropologists Glenn Conroy and new coauthor Herman
Pontzer use clear writing and abundant, carefully chosen
illustrations to illuminate key concepts and help students get the
most out of the course. This definitive paleoanthropology text has
been fully revised to keep pace with all of the exciting recent
developments in the field.
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