Are We Burning More Calories Than We Are?

Before doctor ponter and his colleagues went to tanzania, no one had studied energy expenditure in hunter gatherer societies. So we had no idea how many calories they would burn. And this is a huge hole in our knowledge. We really wanted to know that for two reasons. One is from the sort of evolutionary or ecological reason. That's how we evolve. But then there's also this sort of public health aspect to it too,. The obesity crisis in the usa he industrialized countries, is that we're not burning enough calories. If we were hunting and gathering and really physically active, like we no hunter gatherers are, then surely we'd be burning a