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> Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20 It reminds me of the quote from Ri
by 123pie123 5y ago
> Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20
It reminds me of the quote from Rimmer in Red Dwarf - which was also used in a popular student uk song "Surfin’ USM" by the band "Carter USM" - https://youtu.be/_BGlAWeNFOE?t=11 https://youtu.be/_BGlAWeNFOE?t=11
Rimmer/ Red Dwarf: "When you're younger, you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still climb in to your 26-inch-waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age- 24, 25- your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag, and without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard"
This song stuck with me because it happend to me around 22-23, I gained crap loads of weight (around 3 stone/ 42 pounds/ 19kg)
- eloeffler 5y agoSo nice to see a fellow smeghead XD
- nmstoker 5y agoGreat quote, but I think the focus of the high metabolism in the research is mainly around the 9-15 months old period and so a sudden and dramatic weight chance in the twenties might be related to some other shift. This part of the article shows the effect over time, which is much less as time goes on: "Children’s metabolic rates stay high until age 5, but the rate slowly begins to glide down until it plateaus around age 20. Interestingly, adult rates are stable until age 60, when they begin to decline."