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Aired on Monday, April 12th. Our guest is Herman Pontzer, an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and Associate Research Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. An well-known researcher in human energetics and evolution, he joins us to discuss his new book, Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy. The book draws on Pontzer s groundbreaking studies with hunter-gatherer tribes in order to show how exercise actually doesn t increase our metabolism. Instead, human beings generally burn calories within a very narrow range nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. The book thus offers, per a starred review in Kirkus, an absorbing, instructive lesson for anyone concerned about their health. ....
Aired on Monday, January 18th. On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we re looking at the connections between diet, weight control, and health. Our guest is Gary Taubes, the investigative science and health journalist who co-founded the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative, and whose bestselling previous books include Why We Get Fat and The Case Against Sugar. He joins us to discuss his latest book, The Case for Keto. As was noted by this work by Lewis Cantley, director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital: Taubes vigorously challenges the conventional view that low-fat, plant-based diets are healthy and that eating fats is risky, providing an historical context of the effectiveness of keto diets that goes back more than 150 years. ....