Where “Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity” gets it wrong

Statistical Epidemiology 2013-03-15

Summary:

There is a recent PLoS ONE article on obesity getting quite a bit of attention. The article, Hunter-Gatherer Energetics and Human Obesity, reports research looking at total energy expenditure in a sample of adults from a  Tanzanian hunter-gatherer tribe, the Hadza.  Given their “traditional physically active lifestyle” the authors expected that Hadza to have lower [...]

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http://statisticalepidemiology.org/where-hunter-gatherer-energetics-and-human-obesity-gets-it-wrong/

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dldahly

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 12:45

Date published:

08/31/2012, 06:23