Sentences with phrase «of total body mass»

At rest only 20 % of blood goes to muscle (despite the fact that muscles make up about half of the total body mass).

Activating brown adipose tissue — which may amount to as much as 30 to 40 percent of total body mass in some people — can make the battle of the bulge considerably easier.

In fact, the typical American diet is extremely meat - heavy, having risen dramatically over the past century.9 Previous research has suggested the average American consumes about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of total body mass (lean mass plus fat).

A 2005 review found that the Mifflin - St Jeor equation was more accurate than the Harris - Benedict, Owen, and WHO / FAO / UNU equations.15 However, the Katch - McArdle is probably more accurate since it uses lean body mass instead of total body mass.

«The human brain only makes up 2 percent of our total body mass but stands for 20 percent of our total energy demand,» Niclas Kolm, an animal ecologist from Uppsala University in Sweden, said in a press release.

Mirroring the human studies, the researchers showed that risperidone causes weight gain in mice (an extra 2.5 grams, or approximately 10 percent of the total body mass, over two months compared to controls) and significantly alters the bacterial composition of the mouse microbiome.

Abstract Skeletal muscle is a major site of metabolic activity and the most abundant tissue in the human body accounting for almost 40 % of the total body mass.

A gradual loss of weight in the range of 5 - 10 % of the total body mass will also gradually decrease the deposits of visceral fat.

This equated to 38 % and 31 % of total body mass, respectively.

In contrast, the bench press produces superior pectoralis major EMG amplitude compared to the standing cable press, probably because this exercise seems to have an upper ceiling in force output of 41 % of total body mass.