Basically the title. I saw this thing about how much you have to exercise to burn off certain foods and was wondering how your body burns so many calories by doing nothing.
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Grab a stress ball in each hand. Squeeze one fully as quickly as you can and then squeeze the other. Try to keep up a rhythm of about .8 seconds between each squeeze.
See how long you can keep that up.
That’s not too far away from what your heart does every second of every day with no breaks.
Your brain has to fire off chemical reactions to consider this, as well as run all of your bodily systems before during and after your consciousness considering things. That takes power to do.
All those bodily functions also require power to do their work (mostly) from digesting your food to making more cells to fighting off invaders to making sure all your secretions get where they need to go to just keeping you body heat at a survivable temperature.
If you look at all the work your body does on a day where you don’t even get out of bed it’s much more puzzling how a resting human body can accomplish all that on half of a Denny’s grand slam a day.
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