I realize this article is behind a paywall, but a good friend's brother wrote it. It's called The Exercise Paradox. Conclusions inside. -- (edited)
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Inigo (aka Inigo)
Jan 18 '17, 07:33
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- Conventional wisdom holds that physically active people burn more calories than less active people do.
- But studies show that traditional hunter-gatherers, who lead physically hard lives, burn the same number of calories as people with access to modern conveniences.
- The discovery that human energy expenditure is tightly constrained raises questions about how our large brain and other energetically demanding traits evolved.
- Comparisons with energy expenditure in great apes suggest that the human metabolic engine has evolved to get more work done to support our costly features.
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