Exercise doesn’t help you burn more energy on average.

Ha. Bullshit. I eat about 500 more calories per day than I did before I started intense weightlifting, and have for years. I track what I eat pretty assiduously so I’m not far off here.

But when adjusted for nonfat body mass, Hadza men and women burned the same amount of energy per day on average as men and women in the United States, as well as those in Europe, Russia, and Japan, he reported….

There’s where the con comes, that “nonfat body mass.” If you think about what the means for a second, you see that’s the usual scientist trick of adjusting things that should not be altered so the results than fit the narrative. And the narrative of course is whatever aligns with Fat Acceptance talking points.

That said, some of the research appears to be worthwhile, though it’s just so befouled with the FA ideology, who’s to say? I do agree 100% with the idea that you can’t exercise your way to losing weight; diet is what matters. Still, I think this research is mostly worthless — it’s designed explicitly to allow people to justify wallowing in their loserdom and is mostly a carefully-orchestrated con that, like the best cons, uses kernels of truth to appear to have veracity.