Our bodies burn calories every day without exercise.
Exercise and daily activities can increase calorie burn during the day.
Factors such as having a health condition may also affect how many calories a body burns daily.
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These functions include breathing, keeping the circulatory system running, digesting food, and creating new cells.
Scientists call this the resting metabolic rate (RMR), which accounts for the greatest daily caloric expenditure.
Several different formulas may be used to calculate RMR.
Various activities have different calorie expenditures attached to them.
In general, exercise that increases the heart rate will require more calories.
Calories expended include those burned by the body at rest and those burned during any activity.
Doing the math to determine basic calorie needs can be helpful.
Chronic illness may also affect the average calories burned in a day.
Calories Burned in Males vs.
Females
Differences are noted between calories burned in males and females.
One factor is that female bodies are less well-studied.
Extrapolating the results of research done on males and trying to apply it to females results in inaccuracies.
One way to increase calories burned is to increase intentional exercise.
Burning calories this way is callednon-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT).
When done consistently and often, they can increase total daily calorie burn.
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