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The exercise paradox emerged from studies comparing calorie expenditure between different populations. Fieldwork on the Hadza people, a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania, revealed that despite their high levels of physical activity, the tribe burned a similar number of calories per day as sedentary individuals in industrialized societies.
The Harris–Benedict equation (also called the Harris-Benedict principle) is a method used to estimate an individual's basal metabolic rate (BMR).. The estimated BMR value may be multiplied by a number that corresponds to the individual's activity level; the resulting number is the approximate daily kilocalorie intake to maintain current body weight.
The precise equivalence between calories and joules has varied over the years, but in thermochemistry and nutrition it is now generally assumed that one (small) calorie (thermochemical calorie) is equal to exactly 4.184 J, and therefore one kilocalorie (one large calorie) is 4184 J or 4.184 kJ.
Partner sex may take a bit more energy, but you're still only burning around 4.2 calories a minute, according to a small study done by scientists at the University of Montreal in 2013.
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Calories Burned Walking *Based on a one-hour workout for a 150-pound person Light Intensity: Walking at about 2.5 mph on a firm, level surface = 3.0 MET = 205 calories per hour
Obese individuals burn more energy than lean individuals due to increase in the amount of calories needed to maintain adipose tissue and other organs that grow in size in response to obesity. [2] At rest, the largest fractions of energy are burned by the skeletal muscles, brain, and liver; around 20 percent each. [2]
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