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Question asked by Bill LaRocco 221 days ago

How many calories does a pound of muscle burn?

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Answered by Danielle Vindez 221 days ago
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Hi Bill
Great question!
2010 American Society for Nutrition
Specific metabolic rates of major organs and tissues across adulthood: evaluation by mechanistic model of resting energy expenditure1,2,3,4
ZiMian Wang,
Zhiliang Ying,
Anja Bosy-Westphal,
Junyi Zhang,
Britta Schautz,
Wiebke Later,
Steven B Heymsfield, and
Manfred J Müller

For skeletal muscle at rest per kilogram the daily kcal burn was tested at 12.6. An earlier study suggested 13 per kilogram at rest per day.

Danielle
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Danielle, you did the kg to lbs conversion backwards; 1 kg = 2.2 lbs. Therefore 1 lbs would be about 6 kcal.
Comment by Karin Singleton 221 days ago
Oops thanks Karin
Not much burn at rest.
Comment by Danielle Vindez 220 days ago
Yeah but it's only for one pound. The person asking the question seems to have a lot of those pounds :-)
Comment by Karin Singleton 220 days ago
:-) You have a discriminating eye
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Answered by Shawn Fears 220 days ago
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7 give or take
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Answered by Debbie Russell 219 days ago
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An exact amount of actual calories burned would take into consideration a number of different individual factors.

It's certainly not 50 calories per pound myth ... but closer to the scientific estimation of 5 – 7 kilocalories per pound
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Answered by Jason Martuscello 204 days ago
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That is a very large debate within scientific research. I have a couple colleagues looking into the research!

Fuel the movement,
JM
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Answered by Andrew Halligan 204 days ago
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