Sentences with phrase «energy than the rest of your body»

Your brain consumes significantly more energy than the rest of your body for its weight; so doing anything that takes a lot of mental activity — writing, reading and speaking, these things use up a lot of energy.

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Despite their hostile environment, Red - throated Loon chicks did not use more energy than what was predicted by their body mass, possibly because of how they limit their energy expenditure — they regularly rest onshore, and very young chicks are brooded by their parents to help keep them warm.

This can be done one of two ways: you can eat less than the energy disbursed by your basal metabolic rate (read: the amount of calories needed to maintain your body at rest) from the comfort of your couch, or you eat at your resting metabolic rate and create the deficit through exercise.

«While an adult human brain typically weighs only about 2 % of the body weight, a resting brain consumes more than 20 % of all the oxygen, thus indicating a 10-fold greater energy requirement than other tissues.