Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

by Daniel E. Lieberman

For more than a century, English convicts (among them Oscar Wilde) were condemned to trudge for hours a day on enormous steplike treadmills.2

Is drinking a glass of red wine as beneficial as spending an hour in the gym?4

I want this to be true

“Why,” he asked me with evident disbelief, “would anyone run when they didn’t have to?”

For good reason, it is unethical and illegal to starve people in the lab for the sake of science.

Right...but we can convince people to compete on survivor. maybe some scidntists need to take advantage

compared with other mammals, humans might have evolved to be especially averse to exercise.

We thus must sleep to flush out the cobwebs left behind by the day’s experiences.

No wonder after a stresfull day (even a sedentary one) we are exhausted.

sudden infant death syndrome,

As a former crime scene investigator it isnt SIDS that is the problem, it is rolling over and suffocating your child.

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