Mehrsa's Reviews > Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

I love a good debunking book that also cuts through the BS and tells you what is and isn't true and what we can and can't know. This book is a nice corrective to wild claims about sitting is the new smoking or myths about our running ancestors and their paleo diets. It just didn't happen like that. Yes, we were more active, but just walking to find food and stuff and also we've always had back pain basically. The tension of our species is that we like to sit and rest because we need to conserve energy but we are too sedentary and that is creating all sorts of effects. So we have to exercise but we don't have the internal drive. I am sort of an addict where it comes to exercise and I do it every single day except when I can't or am not feeling well. Still, I have to get over that initial resistance of my body wanting to just sit and do nothing.