ENERGY PARADOX

Lifestyle, food, and beating disease

So many people start running with the aim of losing weight.

But decades of research has shown that people (and non-human animals) who live sedentary lives burn about the same amount of energy as their active peers.

DIFFERENT BUT THE SAME

Herman Pontzer is an anthropologist at Hunter College. He studies energy expenditure in humans and, he explained how we know this to be true and why it happens.