I really thought they would burn more calories with all that walking around, but apparently Americans (I am one) have a higher basal metabolic rate on average. On thinking about it, that does make some sense. Maintaining excess weight will drive up the basal metabolic rate.
Perhaps what we need to do is not "eat less, move more" (since we already are expending as much energy as they are) but eat more like they do.
Or really. eat like anyone else except modern Americans (and any who have adopted that diet), We don't need to eat like the Hadza. Eating like an American from 1850 would do just fine. Or eating the traditional diet of pretty much any country or group of people.
These people aren't burning more calories (the study shows). They are eating only their traditional foods. Around the world, people stay slim eating their traditional food. Americans used to be like that too, being slim and healthy on "farm food" that was pretty high calorie. Things just seem to fall apart healthwise when the diet gets industrialized. It has taken off dramatically recently but it actually started over a hundred years ago with the cow abuse that led to mandatory pasteurization and the white flour-caused vitamin deficiencies that led to mandatory flour enrichment.
The Hadza are pointing us to a better way, but "eat less, move more" isn't it.
