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Counting our calorific intake and sticking to low-fat foods might not be the best for our waistlines after all

Forget taking shortcuts with fancy supplements. The key to vitality is exercise, diet, sleeping – and coffee.

Forget taking shortcuts with fancy supplements. The key to vitality is exercise, diet, sleeping – and coffee

Virtual marathons, Zoom fitness classes, Couch to 5k — whatever your fitness fix has been during lockdown, surveys show that many of us are exercising more than ever before. But there was

Share The big surprise is it hasnt, he told BBC Radio 4s Today programme. What weve learnt is that we burn the same number of calories every day regardless of lifestyle. Our lifestyle determines how we burn them. He added: Even within industrialised societies, people who are more active dont burn more calories every day, even thats what were always told. The scientist explained that people who are more active do burn more calories on exercise, but are spending less energy on other stuff such as...

Herman Pontzer, the author of Burn, tells Rosa Silverman why everything you thought you knew about your metabolism is wrong

A leading scientist is exposing the misunderstood science of metabolism, after a startling realisation while living with an African tribe