" expenditure by focusing on expenditure alone. “For a long period the role of exercise in weight control was disregarded, if not actually ridiculed,” he wrote in a 1965 New York Times Magazine article. “One reason often advanced for this neglect is that ‘exercise consumes very little energy.’…Somehow the impression was given that any such exercise had to be accomplished in a single uninterrupted session. Actually, exercise does correspond to a caloric expenditure that can be considerable, and this expenditure will take place in a day or a decade. "

― Gary Taubes , Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease