'Pontzer's findings have huge implications for our attitudes to exercise diet and public
health' Mark Webster Sunday Times A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a
pioneering evolutionary biologist 'Public health strategies stubbornly cling to the simplistic
armchair engineer's view of metabolism hurting efforts to combat obesity diabetes heart
disease cancer and the other diseases that are most likely to kill us' Herman Pontzer's
ground-breaking research has revealed how contrary to received wisdom exercise does not
increase our metabolism. Instead we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3 000
calories per day no matter our activity level. In this book he draws on twenty years of
cutting-edge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn
explores the ways in which metabolism controls every aspect of our health - from fertility to
immune function - and reveals the truth about the dynamic system that sustains us. Filled with
facts and memorable anecdotes this book will change the way you think about food exercise and
what really matters for your health.
