Toward a comprehensive model of physical activity
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Toward a comprehensive model of physical activity behavior
Human anatomy and physiology has remained relatively unchanged over the past 40,000 years (Astrand, 1994, Cordain, Gotschall, Eaton and Eaton, 1998). The interrelationship between our energy intake, energy expenditure, and physical activity requirements are essentially the same as our Stone Age forebears. But, in terms of energy expenditure resulting from physical activity, Cordain and colleagues estimate that contemporary Westerners expend approximately 38% of the energy that their Paleolithic
Acknowledgements
This research was supported in part by a grant from the Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Foundation. We thank Lise Gauvin and James Sallis for thoughtful comments on a previous version of this manuscript.
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