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Highly recommend this book for those interested in energy.....
Burn. The misunderstood science of metabolism by Herman Pontzer.
He's an anthropologist. The core of the book is centred on his 10 year study of the Hadza, hunter-gatherers in Africa.
He's been doing the podcast circuit. This one is a good listen. No interview will do the book justice., if the content gets your appetite then get the book for the details.
There is an interview with Neil de Grasse Tyson too on star talk.
It's not a diet book or anything but diet and fitness feature heavily. He gives the paleo high fat narrative a right good kicking with the overall view that we can eat anything.
The Hadza gett 65% of their daily energy needs from carb. 15% of which is honey. They walk a lot. They do more activity in a day than most westerners do in a week. They hunt with bow and arrow, the tension of which is equivalent to a one arm pull up....lots of details like that ....
The key finding though?
He had to check his data and get others to check and double check because it was unexpected.
The Hadza are very active yet their daily energy expenditure is the same as any westerner. He used double labelled water, isotopic water, to obtain precise measurements of carbon dioxide.
And all this information is put together to compare primate metabolism to human metabolism through our evolution and into the present day obesity and climate change emergencies.
"The bottom line is that your daily activity level has almost no bearing on the number of calories you burn each day"
In some ways not that great a revelation to many here.....fat loss happens in the kitchen....but he expands on that on why training and exercise aids a functioning metabolism and health.
A lot of frequent threads are all in the book. It's also a fun and enjoyable read.
Burn. The misunderstood science of metabolism by Herman Pontzer.
He's an anthropologist. The core of the book is centred on his 10 year study of the Hadza, hunter-gatherers in Africa.
He's been doing the podcast circuit. This one is a good listen. No interview will do the book justice., if the content gets your appetite then get the book for the details.
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast - Energy and Evolution with Herman Pontzer on Stitcher
How does the human body take in and use energy? It is a simple question, but one that we still do not have a definitive answer to. This week Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Herman Pontzer, joins to shed light on these evolutionary mysteries. How did our bodies get to be the way...
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It's not a diet book or anything but diet and fitness feature heavily. He gives the paleo high fat narrative a right good kicking with the overall view that we can eat anything.
The Hadza gett 65% of their daily energy needs from carb. 15% of which is honey. They walk a lot. They do more activity in a day than most westerners do in a week. They hunt with bow and arrow, the tension of which is equivalent to a one arm pull up....lots of details like that ....
The key finding though?
He had to check his data and get others to check and double check because it was unexpected.
The Hadza are very active yet their daily energy expenditure is the same as any westerner. He used double labelled water, isotopic water, to obtain precise measurements of carbon dioxide.
And all this information is put together to compare primate metabolism to human metabolism through our evolution and into the present day obesity and climate change emergencies.
"The bottom line is that your daily activity level has almost no bearing on the number of calories you burn each day"
In some ways not that great a revelation to many here.....fat loss happens in the kitchen....but he expands on that on why training and exercise aids a functioning metabolism and health.
A lot of frequent threads are all in the book. It's also a fun and enjoyable read.