How does your body burn 2000 calories a day, but you have to run a mile to burn 100 extra?

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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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To add to others comments, your brain is something like 20% of calories burned. There are other organs that use calories as well that are (mostly) not associated with physical exertion. So only a portion of your body is increasing it’s calorie use.

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