Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness

Podcast do you have a goal to lose weight? If so, you're probably thinking about how you need to exercise more. And that can certainly help. But what about the 23 hours a day you're not at the gym? How much you move during those hours from walking to the mailbox to

fidgeting at your desk can be just as important in winning the battle of the

bulge. Here to explain the importance of what's called non-exercise activity

thermogenesis or neat is Dr James Levine. what's of the treadmill desk and the author of Get Up while your chair is killing you and what you can do about it.

James explains how much more sedentary we are than we used to be what happens to your body when you spend half of your day sitting.

He shares how doing the lightest kinds of physical

activity, even standing more, can help you lose a significant amount of weight and

improve other aspects of your health from your sleep to your mood. And we talk

about how you can easily incorporate more neat into your day.

After the show is over, check at our show notes at A.O.M. slash neat. All right.

James Levine, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Brett. So you have spent your career

researching obesity, particularly how our physical activity levels can

contribute to how trim we are or how fat we are. When it comes to the way our body burns or uses calories,

you've broken down in your work and there's three, basically three ways our bodies burn calories.

What are those three ways our body uses calories?

Yeah, the three basic ways we burn calories are there is the basal metabolism.

Basel metabolism accounts for about 60% of the total. The bigger you are, the bigger

your basal metabolism, or more specifically, the greater your lean body mass, the

greater your basal metabolism. Now what's important is yes it's actually the

majority burn but you can't change it. So moving on the next one is the

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