Burn, New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy by Pontzer, Herman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Chapter 1: The Invisible Hand

A Small Matter of Life and Death Dog Years Planet of the Apes A Sloth in the Family Tree Primate Power This Is Us Darwin and the Dietician

Chapter 2: What Is Metabolism Anyway?

Demystifying Metabolism Soylent Green Really Is People (Or It Could Be) Follow the Pizza Burn, Baby, Burn Burning Fat, Getting Fat, and Going Keto Poisoned by Plants Aliens Within: Mitochondria and the O2 Joy Off to the Races

Chapter 3: What Is This Going to Cost Me?

On the Shoulders of Giants Getting Around: The Costs of Walking, Running, Swimming, and Cycling A Body at Rest Beyond Bmr The Game of Life One Billion Heartbeats The Devilish Arithmetic of Daily Energy Expenditure The Doubly Labeled Water Revolution The New Science of Human Metabolism

Chapter 4: How Humans Evolved to Be the Nicest, Fittest, and Fattest Apes

An Unlikely Place Strangers in a Strange Land Selfish, Lazy Vegetarians Human the Sharer The Metabolic Revolution The Downside

Chapter 5: The Metabolic Magician: Energy Compensation and Constraint

Hard Living Things Get Weird Constrained Daily Energy Expenditure Trying to Outrun Obesity We Are All the Biggest Loser: Metabolic Responses to Overeating and Undereating The Brains Behind the Operation A Smarter Way of Thinking About Metabolism and Obesity Calories In, Calories Out, and the Metabolic Magician

Chapter 6: The Real Hunger Games: Diet, Metabolism, and Human Evolution

More Data, Less Shouting Magical Ingredients: Sugar, Fat, and Testicles Fat Versus Sugar Why Low-Carb Keto Diets (And Others) Succeed Hungry Hungry Hypothalamus How Does Anyone Avoid the Obesity Trap? How to Eat Like a Hadza

Chapter 7: Run for Your Life!

Exercise Gets Everywhere A Different Way of Thinking About Exercise Energetics The Dark Side Of Apes and Athletes But Weight, There’s Less Pushing the Limits

Chapter 8: Energetics at the Extreme: The Limits of Human Endurance

A Matter of Time Endurance Over Days, Weeks, and Months It’s Alimentary, My Dear Watson Endurance Takes Guts Athletes Everywhere What’s So Special About Michael Phelps? Evolved to Break the Rules

Chapter 9: The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Homo Energeticus

From Focusing Your Energy to Playing with Fire The Technology Tsunami Unintended Consequences Building a Better Zoo Back in Camp

Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author