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This is easily one of my books of the year - Bill Bryson * bestselling author of The Body * Myth-busting, illuminating, brilliant - Lieberman will completely change the way you think about your body - Professor Alice Roberts * presenter of Our Incredible Human Journey * Entertaining and informative. Lieberman strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit and enthusiasm for his subject. 'Myth-busting, illuminating, brilliant - Lieberman will completely change the way you think about your body' Professor ALICE ROBERTS, presenter of Our Incredible Human JourneyĮndlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Drawing on over a decade of high-level scientific research and eye-opening insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman explains precisely how exercise can promote health debunks persistent myths about sitting, speed, strength and endurance and points the way towards more enjoyable and physically active living in the modern world. We are hardwired for moderate exertion throughout each day, not triathlons or treadmills. But, as Daniel Lieberman shows in Exercised, the first book of its kind by a leading scientific expert, we never evolved to exercise. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and our attitudes to exercise are plagued by misconceptions, finger-pointing and anxiety. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSON The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and wellbeing. 'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises.
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