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Rethinking Diet and Exercise | Herman Pontzer, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

CHAPTER

The Constrained Energy Model - Is Exercise More Important Than Diet?

Once people manage to lose weight, they tend to keep it off better. The ones who are successfully keeping it off are the ones who add exercise into their daily lives. We were chasing a pretty simple story here, which is that if we exercise more, you burn more calories. And maybe you build muscle too, that's good too. But those are all very simple ideas of what exercise can do for you.

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