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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2000 (ish) calories is just what you need for doing the normal stuff you do day to day. The amount of energy you burn just existing and walking around and making poop and thinking and whatnot. The body is a very inefficent machine when you think about it.

Muscles on the other hand are pretty efficient at using the juice you make… It takes a pile of movement to use it up.

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