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Rethinking Diet and Exercise | Herman Pontzer, PhD
The Proof with Simon Hill
What Is Your Energy Expenditure Model?
Herman: People still tend to assume that if you are really physically active and they get about the punchline I like is, a hot demand or woman gets more activity in a day than the typical American gets in a week. And so we were sure because we know that how active hunter-gatherers are, we were sure they'd have really, really high daily energy expenditures. But instead of having sky high energy expenditures, the HODSA men and women were burning the same number of calories every day as folks in the US and in Europe and other industrialized countries. It was like, we couldn't believe it. These really physically active groups do not burn more energy every day than
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