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Thinking in Circles About Obesity pp 69–75Cite as

Human–Environment Interactions: Not One Way … and Not One-Way

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Chapter 2 discussed how the energy dynamic between our human ancestors and their environmental circumstances has endowed us with multiple redundant physiological mechanisms to ensure us sufficient energy balance for survival and reproduction. We also saw how, as a result, the system of weight and energy regulation is three-way asymmetrical—in energy input, expenditure, and storage.

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  1. Dept. Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences, 93943, Monterey, CA, USA

    Tarek K.A. Hamid

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Hamid, T.K. (2009). Human–Environment Interactions: Not One Way … and Not One-Way. In: Thinking in Circles About Obesity. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09469-4_3

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