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

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