Pontzers findings have huge implications for our attitudes to exercise diet and public health Mark Webster Sunday Times A mythbusting tour of the bodys hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologist Public health strategies stubbornly cling to the simplistic armchair engineers view of metabolism hurting efforts to combat obesity diabetes heart disease cancer and the other diseases that are most likely to kill us Herman Pontzers groundbreaking research has revealed how contrary to received wisdom exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead we burn calories within a very narrow range nearly 3000 calories per day no matter our activity level. In this book he draws on twenty years of cuttingedge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume.