If You're Curious About These Questions...
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- Did you know that hitting the gym harder might not actually increase the total number of calories your body burns in a day?
- Have you ever wondered how hunter-gatherers stay incredibly fit while burning the same amount of daily energy as a typical office worker?
- What if everything we’ve been told about the relationship between exercise, diet, and our metabolism is fundamentally wrong?
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Key Takeaways from Burn
- Discover why you can theoretically eat nothing but candy bars and still lose weight by understanding how your metabolism regulates energy.
- Learn what Tanzanian hunter-gatherers and the evolutionary habit of sharing food can teach us about the unique nature of human energy consumption.
- Understand how your body acts as a literal 'spontaneous-generation machine,' continuously building every ounce of bone, blood, and hair from the food you consume.
- Master the true definition of metabolism by realizing it is simply a scientific measure of the physical work your cells perform and the chemical energy they expend.
- Find out how scientists accurately measure real-world human energy expenditure by tracking the carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms leaving our bodies.
Burn — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: You truly become what you eat.
Chapter 3: Metabolism is the gauge of the body’s energy use.
Chapter 4: Tracking energy use is ultimately about counting atoms.
Chapter 5: Metabolically, we’re much like our ancestors.
Chapter 6: Humans possess a constrained, or fixed, metabolism.
Chapter 7: Our evolutionary past explains why we’re so prone to obesity.
Chapter 8: Sharing powered the metabolic revolution.
Chapter 9: You can eat anything and still lose weight if you burn more daily calories than you consume.
Burn Summary & Overview
Burn (2021) shines a light on the science behind metabolism – the way our bodies burn energy. Packed with memorable insights and facts, it draws on the latest metabolic research and delves into the evolutionary history of the human body.
Who Should Listen to Burn?
- Gym members wondering why they aren’t shifting more weight
- Would-be dieters unsure of which nutritional plan to follow
- Natural history buffs
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