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 [...]