Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy [1 ed.] 0525541527, 9780525541523

We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this parad

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
The Invisible Hand
Chapter 2
What Is Metabolism Anyway?
Chapter 3
What Is This Going to Cost Me?
Chapter 4
How Humans Evolved to Be the Nicest, Fittest, and Fattest Apes
Chapter 5
The Metabolic Magician: Energy Compensation and Constraint
Chapter 6
The Real Hunger Games: Diet, Metabolism, and Human EvolutionChapter 7
Run for Your Life!
Chapter 8
Energetics at the Extreme: The Limits of Human Endurance
Chapter 9
The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Homo energeticus
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy [1 ed.]
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