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Exercised : why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding

Exercised : why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding

Book 2020

"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding it...