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Burn
- New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's summary
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.
This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of charts included in the print edition.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Critic reviews
"A wide-ranging romp through evolutionary biology, physiology, and anthropology, Burn will make you question what you think you know about metabolism and your waistline." (Stephan Guyenet, PhD, author of The Hungry Brain)
"Burn is science writing at its best: big ideas, wild and often hilarious stories from the field, and deft explanations. The result will reshape what you thought you knew about how our metabolisms work." (Alex Hutchinson, New York Times best-selling author of Endure)
"An absorbing, instructive lesson for anyone concerned about their health." (Kirkus starred review)
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In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise - to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion.
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Chock Full of Cherrypicking and Contradiction
- By Jessica Rosazza on 03-25-21
By: Daniel Lieberman
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Peak
- Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- By: Robert Pool, Anders Ericsson
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs
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Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.
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Offers more wisdom than even intended
- By Tristan on 07-10-16
By: Robert Pool, and others
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The Book of Joy
- Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
- By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams
- Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams, full cast, Francois Chau, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet.
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This book may have saved my life
- By R. Rajendran-Chandra on 02-08-17
By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and others
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The Art of Living
- Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
- By: Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gabra Zackman
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In troubled times there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today - reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer life's deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire.
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Affirming and Beautiful
- By scdemark on 04-08-18
By: Thích Nhất Hạnh
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The End of Craving
- Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well
- By: Mark Schatzker
- Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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For the last fifty years, we have been fighting a losing war on food. We have cut fat, reduced carbs, eliminated sugar, and attempted every conceivable diet only to find that eighty-eight million American adults are prediabetic, more than a hundred million have high blood pressure, and nearly half now qualify as obese. The harder we try to control what we eat, the unhealthier we become. Why?
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Useful new concepts, well presented
- By Nat on 11-10-21
By: Mark Schatzker
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Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
- The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent - and Reverse - It
- By: Richard J. Johnson MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Nature puts a “survival switch” in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the “on” position, it’s the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off.
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So informative.
- By Geneva on 02-18-22
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Financial Freedom
- A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
- By: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin - foreword
- Narrated by: Grant Sabatier, Vicki Robin
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Financial Freedom is a step-by-step path to make more money in less time, so you have more time for the things you love. It challenges the accepted narrative of spending decades working a traditional nine-to-five job, pinching pennies, and finally earning the right to retirement at age 65, and instead offers listeners an alternative: Forget everything you've ever learned about money so you can actually live the life you want.
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Meh...
- By bobby on 02-10-19
By: Grant Sabatier, and others
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Essentialism
- The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- By: Greg McKeown
- Narrated by: Greg McKeown
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.
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Paring Down...
- By Molly Helm on 06-08-14
By: Greg McKeown
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- By: Matthew Walker
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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I recommend this to EVERYONE
- By meggiemine on 12-11-17
By: Matthew Walker
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You Can't Screw This Up
- Why Eating Takeout, Enjoying Dessert, and Taking the Stress Out of Dieting Leads to Weight Loss That Lasts
- By: Adam Bornstein
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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What if the healthiest diet included the foods that were enjoyable and respectful of our stressful, overbooked lives? You couldn’t screw it up! Here’s a can’t-miss plan that will build unbreakable habits by incorporating mindset changes, easy restaurant options, and more from “the perfect person to blaze a better path” (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
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Finally! A magic pill ;-)
- By Dan Y on 05-25-23
By: Adam Bornstein
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Whole
- Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
- By: T. Colin Campbell PhD/PhD, Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.
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Not what you think it is
- By Sara on 02-26-14
By: T. Colin Campbell PhD/PhD, and others
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Fat Chance
- Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
- By: Robert H. Lustig
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Robert Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation.
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Changed the Way I Eat
- By ash kasper on 03-04-13
By: Robert H. Lustig
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How Not to Die
- Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
- By: Michael Greger MD FACLM, Gene Stone
- Narrated by: Michael Greger MD FACLM
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.
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A stunningly important book
- By Being on 12-29-15
By: Michael Greger MD FACLM, and others
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- Sarah R Chapin
- 03-10-22
Excellent!
This book was incredibly informative. I went into it with a bit of dread that it would be a bit too "scientific" for me to understand. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I plan on buying it for wife to read. The book was well written and easy to follow. The author had some witty yet nerdy humor scattered throughout(my personal style of humor as well!).
It was truly eye opening and I learned much and I recommend it for anyone who is curious about how our body handles food, excercise, stress, and challenges. The book was recommended to me, I am not an individual seeking to lose weight.
The narrator also did a great job. I especially enjoyed the part when discussing the results of a study showing that people who are generally less informed or ignorant on a subject are the ones who have the most confidence in being correct. The American people are aware of this and would never elect a Politician to high office who, while very confident, is totally unqualified. That had me chuckling! The irony!
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- Doug Kavner
- 10-26-21
A fantastic book!
Just stick with it through the chemistry dissertation. Chapters 6, 7 and 9 are amazing!
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- Laura Long
- 03-16-23
Information worth digging for
I was not a fan of this narrator, however, the topic was very informative so I stuck with it.
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- Davian samorano
- 07-21-21
loved it
THIS IS MY GO TO AUDIBLE TO LISTEN TO WHEN BICYCLING ALL THE TIME. THANKS.
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- LNM
- 05-26-21
Captivating story beautifully told
What do we have to learn about ourselves from studying hunter-gatherers in the East African bush? Lots. The author combines his research with the Tanzanian Hadza tribe with solid laboratory work and his studies of our fellow primates around the world to create a fascinating picture of what makes us run. Or...walk, which is just as good. One of the surprising revelations for me (as I age) was that I get as much benefit from walking a mile as I do from running a mile -- which I do much less often these days. And another is that the food I eat is not just part of a weight-loss effort, it's pretty much the whole game! You don't lose weight from exercise. What?! But Herman Pontzer's solid science makes that case convincingly, while at the same time reminding us about the other great benefits we get from exercise. it's all presented in an very readable (OK, I had to really concentrate for a couple of chapters because he delivers the science without flinching) story that teaches us humans how we're like other primates and what sets us apart. I loved the factual de-bunking of what so many of us think about food, fad diets, and our weight. And I love the continual references to hunter-gatherers who have contributed their time to this researched and helped us understand ourselves so much better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-04-24
Solid Material Despite Weak Narrator
Narrator cadence and inflection doesn’t carry the author’s voice very well. Can be dry. But the material is well organized and made interesting. No regrets getting it, wouldn’t mind a rerelease though.
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- RMSr
- 07-28-21
Decades of confusion gone.
Many times the results of a careful balance of diet exercise baffled me. Why didn’t I lose weight when I trained for and ran a marathon? Why did diets and exercise plans seem to have diminishing returns when trying to avoid weight gain? After listening to this book the fog has cleared. Expecting my future plans and results to improve from the understanding provided.
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- robert
- 07-21-21
Landmark
It brings together for all of us the reasons why diets fail and we need to support ourselves and others in a healthy lifestyle for us, them and the planet
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- Jennifer Dunn
- 11-27-21
Great perspective on how we need to live a healthy lifestyle
The last hour of the book was an eye opener. I really enjoyed this book!
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- Heather
- 04-11-21
Great messag , but not great narration
Really enjoyed the science and anthropological insights. A sound message. But narration is monotonous and distracting. Repetitive inflection. Still with listening to.
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