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tl;dr No excuse for being fat! ;-) "Your metabolic rate is the rate at which your body burns calories to keep you alive and functioning. It's a generally accep
by firecall 5y ago
tl;dr No excuse for being fat! ;-)
"Your metabolic rate is the rate at which your body burns calories to keep you alive and functioning. It's a generally accepted belief that as you age, your resting metabolism slows --especially over age 40. And if you are a woman in menopause, your metabolism slows even more.
Not true, says a new paper published in Science. By analyzing data from nearly 6,500 people ranging in age from infancy to elderly, the paper's authors determined that resting metabolism holds steady from age 20 to 60 before logging a decrease of less than 1% per year thereafter."
- shados 5y agoI always took the "slowing metabolism" more as the individual slowing down. As I'm getting older and things start hurting more everywhere, I move less. Because I move less, I have less muscles. Because I have less muscles, I burn less calories, and thus gain weight a lot easier/faster.
- HWR_14 5y agoMetabolism being consistent over age is not the same as metabolism being consistent between people. To the best of my knowledge, there are huge differences in the metabolism of people, and studies have already shown some ability to have (through medical intervention) people to more closely match another's metabolism.