Results for 'herman pontzer'
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Adaptable
The Surprising Science of Human DiversityAmbitious, controversial, there's a line of humour running through it too . . . every “miraculous protein robot”, as Pontzer calls us, should read the book . . . I learned a lot and greatly enjoyed the tour
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Burn
One of the foremost researchers in human metabolism reveals surprising new science behind food and exercise.We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.Pontzer's groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes show how exercise doesn't increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. This was a brilliant evolutionary strategy to survive in times of famine. Now it seems to doom us to obesity. The good news is we can lose weight, but we need to cut calories. Refuting such weight-loss hype as paleo, keto, anti-gluten, anti-grain, and even vegan, Pontzer discusses how all diets succeed or fail: For shedding pounds, a calorie is a calorie.At the same time, we must exercise to keep our body systems and signals functioning optimally, even if it won't make us thinner. Hunter-gatherers like the Hadza move about five hours a day and remain remarkably healthy into old age. But elite athletes can push the body too far, burning calories faster than their bodies can take them in. It may be that the most spectacular athletic feats are the result not just of great training, but of an astonishingly efficient digestive system.Revealing, irreverent, and always entertaining, Pontzer has written a book that will change how you eat, move, and live.
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Burn
'Pontzer's findings have huge implications for our attitudes to exercise, diet and public health' Mark Webster, Sunday Times A myth-busting tour of the body's hidden foundations from a pioneering evolutionary biologist 'Public health strategies stubbornly cling to the simplistic armchair engineer's view of metabolism, hurting efforts to combat obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and the other diseases that are most likely to kill us' Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed how, contrary to received wisdom, exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. In this book, he draws on twenty years of cutting-edge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn explores the ways in which metabolism controls every aspect of our health - from fertility to immune function - and reveals the truth about the dynamic system that sustains us. Filled with facts and memorable anecdotes, this book will change the way you think about food, exercise and what really matters for your health.
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The Telomere Effect
A ground breaking book on the history of Telomeres offering fresh advice on how to slow down aging and lengthen life. Nobel prize winning Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn and leading health psychologist Dr Elissa Epel have discovered biological markers called Telomeres which can help to understand how healthy our cells are and what we can do to improve them. The book specifically looks ideas including; how biological age is not chronological age; a biological basis for the mind-body connection, how sleep and diet can affect telomeres and shockingly how mothers who are highly stressed during pregnancy have children with shorter telomeres. It also offers tools and advice on how to determine cellular age and telomere health. Doctor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for her discovery of telomeres and their role in the ageing process and has previously been named in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People.Dr. Elissa Epel is a leading health psychologist who has conducted pioneering research uncovering the psychobiological mechanisms related to how stress ages us and compromises our health-from emotional eating to unhealthy storage of abdominal fat to telomere shortening.
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De energiebalans
Begrijp je lichaam: verbrand calorieën, val af en blijf gezondE-bookWe verbranden 2000 calorieën per dag. En als we bewegen en minder koolhydraten eten, vallen we af. Toch? Fout. De energiebalans van Herman Pontzer zet alles wat we dachten te weten over eten, verbranden en afvallen volledig op zijn kop. Wist je dat jager-verzamelaars als de Hadza evenveel energie verbranden als wij, wanneer we de hele dag Netflix zitten te kijken? Dat klinkt misschien onmogelijk, maar De energiebalans bewijst het tegendeel. Dit boek zet alles wat je denkt te weten over eten, verbranden en afvallen volledig op zijn kop. Dit is geen dieetboek: Pontzer laat je op wetenschappelijke wijze inzien hoe en waarom het menselijk lichaam calorieën verwerkt. De juiste balans tussen vezelrijk eten en genoeg bewegen is immers de motor achter een gezond leven. Na een avond met dit boek begrijp je waarom. Het resultaat is een onthullend, onomwonden en vermakelijk boek dat de manier waarop je eet, beweegt en leeft voorgoed zal veranderen. 'Dit heeft enorme consequenties voor onze kijk op lichaamsbeweging, voeding en de volksgezondheid.' - The Sunday Times 'Dit boek zal je doen twijfelen aan wat je denkt te weten over metabolisme en je taille.' - Stephan Guyenet, auteur van The Hungry Brain
€ 13,99