Office people burn 'calories' like African hunters

Scientists compare wild Aboriginal people in Africa, live hunting animals and workers in the air-conditioned room to see who consumes more calories. It turns out that people who have to run like flying on grass and those who sit still in the office give out an equal amount of heat.

In the epidemic of obesity that is invading all civilized society, everyone has a sedentary habit. Nobody thinks that modern people move less than their ancestors. We go to the office by sitting on the vehicles, sitting in the air-conditioned office all day, and then returning home again in the same position: sitting in front of the screen of a computer or radio TV.

Everyone knows that food is converted into calories. That number of 'calories to sit' doesn't consume anything else if it doesn't accumulate to turn into belly fat, where does it go? If we don't run, jump, move more then perhaps this phenomenon will not happen. However, is that true?

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British, Tanzanian and American scientists have sought to answer this question. They came to a conclusion, that that view is wrong.

Researchers have calculated that energy consumption in nomadic hunters and gatherers thinks they move a lot, but the rest time between the two moves is very long. So the energy consumption in them during the day is only equivalent, but not much more than those who thought it was very leisurely.

In the calculations of scientists, the parameters such as weight, gender, age of the study participants, the proportion of their adipose tissue. The results are always the same: daily energy consumption, even if the African hunter struggles to make a living, is no different from a civilized white man who works gently .

On that basis, researchers identify everyone as having the same level of transformation, without exceptions such as the high workload such as soccer.

We also agree that these are the first studies, which scientists have measured energy consumption directly rather than using approximate evaluations.

Thus, the obesity causes of modern people are not due to reducing energy consumption but increasing 'input'. In other words, modern people eat too much.

Of course, it is not useless to give up exercising more. Scientists emphasize that it is important for a person not to burn how many calories a day but how to consume it.

African hunters have kept almost intact health until the end of their late twenties because they consume their calories in manual labor. So fitness centers in the West are not a meaningless invention.