Watch your calories, and move as much as you can to make up for our sedentary modern workplaces, has long been the advice from various health authorities, with equal weight given to both aspects of that counsel.
But a new study has looked at calories burned daily across various populations – and the results challenge the thinking that the decreased physical activity common with economic development is an equal cause of obesity with food intake.
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