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The Gym Paradox

Want to Get Fit · Hate Exercising · Love Eating

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Herman Pontzer measured Hadza hunter-gatherers, who walk all day, and found they burn about the same daily calories as office workers. The body quietly adjusts. Exercise is excellent for nearly everything except the one job this diagram gives it.

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