{"title":"Daniel E. Lieberman","description":"DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN is Edwin M. Lerner Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He is the author of the national best seller The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease and Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rearding. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"exercised-why-something-we-never-evolved-to-do-is-healthy-and-rewarding-paperback","title":"Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising--not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm.\" --Bill Bryson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible?\u003cbr\u003e- Does running ruin your knees?\u003cbr\u003e- Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training?\u003cbr\u003e- Is sitting really the new smoking?\u003cbr\u003e- Can you lose weight by walking?\u003cbr\u003e- And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise--to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51364506796255,"sku":"9780525434788","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oz1NjlN2Nf9780525434788.webp?v=1789048473"},{"product_id":"fed-up-what-evolution-reveals-about-food-diet-health-and-eating-well-hardcover","title":"Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, no-nonsense look at two questions we never evolved to ask but now must consider several times a day: what should we eat, and why?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel E. Lieberman--bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of the Human Body \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eExercised, \u003c\/i\u003eand founding chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University--cuts through all the confusing and contradictory advice on diet and wellness to ar­gue that there can be no simple, definitive answer. Drawing from evolutionary biol­ogy, physiology, anthropology, anatomy, medical science, and history, Lieberman examines, with brio and wit, the history and health effects of food from before the invention of cooking up to today's industrially produced diets. He shows how we evolved to eat almost anything, and by evalu­ating and trying many of these diets (raw food, Paleo, Mediterranean, Blue Zone, intermittent fasting, Atkins, DASH), he helps you understand why none is flawless though some are better than others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLieberman explores the costs and benefits of cheap, energy-rich, tempting, and often unhealthy ultra-processed foods; the tangled roots of weight gain; how diet influences obesity, heart disease, and cancer; and the claims of benefits offered by high- and low-fat diets, meal replacements, inter­mittent fasting, carnivorism, vegetarianism, and veganism--while also showing how over centu­ries most cultures evolved ingenious ways to grow and cook healthy, delicious food. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fascinating and entertaining sci­ence-based book on nutrition, digestion, and health will teach you how to be well fed instead of fed up with dietary hucksterism.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365428003039,"sku":"9780593537992","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/itL-dl1Fid9780593537992.webp?v=1789062882"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/daniel-e-lieberman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}