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Diet and exercise are a continual topic of discussion in my circle of friends, and the discussion is a free mixture of science, pseudoscience, and sheer wishful thinking. Again and again, when I look to experts for advice, it all comes down to a logical balance of physical exercise and the amount of food. We need be burning up the amount of food that we eat or, if we’re dieting, using up more food than we eat. But the subject is tricky, of course, because everybody wants a shortcut to health, and even the slightest scientific provenance can support the newest craze.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). Peak Performance. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_13
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