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US kcal expenditure down 220/d for males and 122/d for females compared to 1980s

https://twitter.com/JohnSpeakman4/status/1651246273553633280

by nozzlegear • 3 years ago

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nozzlegear• 3 years ago

I had to mangle the title here to make it fit. Full text of the tweet reads:

We are currently expending about 220 kcal/d less for males and 122 kcal/d less for females than people of our age and body composition were in the late 1980s. These changes are sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic in the USA.

clipsy• 3 years ago

Even more fascinating are the followup tweets in which they elaborate that it is a drop in basal energy expenditure responsible for these drops in the total rather than (as I, at least, was expecting) a drop in active energy expenditure.

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