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In The News

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Is Calorie Counting Ever Actually Helpful?

The New Science on How We Burn Calories

What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong

Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us about Weight Gain

The Miracle of Metabolism

Middle-age spread isn’t down to metabolism, but we know how to beat it

New Research Shows Your Thinking about Metabolism Is All Wrong

Risky Food-Finding Strategy Could Be the Key to Human Success

Why scientists now say you can’t blame midlife weight gain on a slow metabolism

Metabolism in adulthood does not slow as commonly believed, study finds

Why Crash Weight Loss Programs Don’t Work: Clues from Hunter-Gatherer Societies

Examining energy and evolution with Herman Pontzer: podcast and transcript

Duke Researcher Busts Metabolism Myths in New Book

Metabolism myths: 7 things we get wrong about diet and exercise

Study: Kids should eat better because exercise ‘is a terrible tool for losing weight’

A conversation on the limits of human endurance

Thanks, mom! Pregnancy is among the most grueling things a person can do

How many steps a day do you really need? Spoiler: It isn’t 10,000

Pregnant women are basically endurance athletes: study

The Limits of Human Endurance

On the Hadza and Human Metabolism – Herman Pontzer

Living Like a Caveman Won’t Make You Thin. But It Might Make You Healthy

Humans Evolved to Exercise

The Myth of Exercise, Metabolism and Weight Loss

The Exercise Paradox

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