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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Your body is always burning calories to run its basic functions – keep your organs doing their job, keep your body warm, etc. If you think about it, running a mile takes like 8-10 minutes and that burns an extra 5% over your entire day’s baseline. If you jogged for an hour, you’d burn 600-700 calories.

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