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Rethinking Diet and Exercise | Herman Pontzer, PhD
The Proof with Simon Hill
Do You Know if You Can Burn 8,000 Calories a Day?
In extreme circumstances, elite athletes can burn more than the typical 3,000 calories a day. We measured energy expenditures and people who ran a marathon a day from Los Angeles on the western Pacific coast of North America all the way to Washington DC. They were still burning more energy than we would ever think of as a normal habitual amount of energy. But their bodies were trying.
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