cite what percentage of calories a healthy person invests in the act of respiration while at rest?
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If you mean cellular respiration, then it would be about 70%.  The majority of the rest is used for neuronal transmission-specifically for maintanence of the ionic gradient.  If you are speaking of merely gross respiration (the movement of air in and out of your lungs) then it would be a very small percentage.
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First you need to find out your body fat %, then from that you can find you resting metabolic rate (RMR)\nthe formula is: RMR=lean body mass(pounds)/2.205*30.4 this how many calories that your body burn at rest in one day with no activity. then after that go to http://www.healthdiscovery.net/links/die... and calculate you exercise and add everything together. and that should tell you how many calories you need to eat for you Diet depending of your fitness goals. Every 3500 calories is 1lbs
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I found many of the answers interesting.  The answer is not as straight forward as you would think.  Standing can fatigue the legs more especially on a climb.  Sounds good.  Well here is the part that is a bit more complicated.  When you stand, you engage more muscle groups than when you sit.  What this means is that you have to work harder sitting to keep up the same heart rate compared to standing.  If you ever wear a heart rate monitor while cycling, you will notice your heart rate jumps right up when you stand.  I think Tyler Hamilton is quoted as he heart rate goes up 5 bpm.  The reason is very simple.  Smaller muscle groups engaged, means you have to work harder.  What this is called is the Sports or Extertion factor.  You have to search the web on the topic but you can find it.  \n\nThis sports factor can mean that you are burning calories at a rate as much as 20% higher compared to the default activity of running.  The harder or more effort it takes to maintain the same heart rate, the more calories burned.  I mention the calorie measurement because it is a good way of measuring workload.  \n\nNow the answer assumes you are maintaining a certain heart rate.  If you want to take it easy, sitting is always going to be an easier option than standing.  Just not as tiring.  At the end of the day, the real answer is it depends on how hard you want to work and what is it you are trying to accomplish.
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This really depends on your age, weight, height and gender.\n\nYou may find BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) & AMR (Active Metabolic Rate) calculators helpful to find your Total Energy Requirement.\n\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html
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go to Fitnessmagazine.com first, you will find a chart for your age, exercise activity, and weight. When your at a resteraunt you just ask for calories, they are required to carry a list of everything with all of the ingrediants and caliories.
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Yes, you do burn calories while sleeping.   It depends on your physical condition and the amount of physical activities you do during the day.  An ordinary 160 lb person can burn an average of 550 calories during an 8 hr. sleep. The more physical activities you do, the more calories you will burn while sleeping.
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I have to disagree with the previous posts.\nIn 1/2 an hour, you'll burn around 300 + calories because an increase in temperature (112 - 116 degrees) over your normal body temp causes fat cells to liquify and excrete out with your sweat.  Your body burns calories just trying to keep your normal body temp!
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Wow, that's way too little.\n\nYou didn't say how tall you are or what your activity level is.  I calculated your estimated BMR and RMR from the website in the source based on a height of 5'5".\n\nThe results of your calculations are:  \nBMR 1,618   RMR 1,557 \nFor an explanation of BMR and RMR and important notes on the accuracy of these calculations, please see our FAQ entitled, What do BMR and RMR stand for? While BMR is much more widely used than RMR, our FAQ explains why RMR is likely to be more appropriate for your needs. \nAs BMR and RMR only represent resting energy expenditure, adjustments must be made to reflect activity level. This can be done by multiplying your BMR and RMR by an activity factor: \nFactor     Category         BMR       RMR   \n1.2 Bed Rest 1,942 1,868 \n1.3 Sedentary 2,103 2,024 \n1.4 Active 2,265 2,180 \n1.5 Very Active 2,427 2,336 \n \nUse of these activity factors produces an extremely rough estimate. For a more accurate estimate of how many calories you burn in a day, we suggest that you calculate the actual activities that you would perform as described in How many calories do I need? \n\nYou really should not eat less than your RMR.
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treadmill would lkely burn 30% more calories for average users, but this would depend on intensity.\nIf boht users achieved similar target heart rates, and maintained them , the calorie consumption would be similar.
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well, the question is: are you gaining weight, losing weight, or maintaining the weight? If you're neither losing nor gaining, then you're consuming the right number of calories for your metabolism.
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Go to yahoo. type in Calorie calculators and some sites you will find are absolutly great and I bet will have that on there. I know sleeping you burn 66 calories an hour.
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it depends on how old you are, how tall you are, and how much you weigh\n\nhow many calories you burn on a daily basis without any activity--is called the basal metabolic rate--or the BMR\n\nfor a person with more muscle--the BMR would be higher--say 2200 calories then a skinnier person--for example, only 1800 calories. \n\nan older person has a lower BMR than a younger person--since the younger person's metabolism is much better (hence old people also feel cold more often)\n\nso BMR can vary from 1600 to 2300--depending on what your body makeup, age, etc. \n\n\nflatter stomach is achieved primarily thru nutrition--and working out\ni would say 70% nutrition, 30% working out\nand focus on cardio to shed fat--since you can't spot reduce--cardio is best for overall fat loss
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. \n\nBy Sir Richard Steele ( And I agree!!!)
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It depends on what type of exercise they do. The exercise that requires more energy usually results in the burning of more calories.
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exersize (3 20min+ periods of aerobic workout) and healthy eating (1500 - 2500 cal/day depending on need and metabolic rate)
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Depends on a persons metabolism
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This is a huge misconception in the fitness industry. Every kind of training, whether it's interval or otherwise has the potential to burn fat, it's how much fat is burned that makes the difference between one activity and the next.  You said it perfectly..."any increase in physical activity will mean more calories used = weight loss"\n\nLow-intensity exercise is not as effective as high-intesity exercise at burning calories. High-intensity exercise is not as effective (percentage wise) as low-intensity exercise at burning fat calories. Regardless, high-intesity exercise always wins the race at burning more total fat calories in the end.\n\nCalories are an important consideration since you need to be in a daily calorie deficit to lose weight. Low-intesity walking typically burns a greater percentage of fat calories than running. For example, say you walk for 60 minutes and burn 300 total calories. The percentage of fat burned for energy usually averages about 70%. When you take 70% of 300 this means you've burned 210 fat calories. BUT jogging burns average 40% of calories from fat, so if you jogged the same duration (60 min) then you'll have burned likely over 600 calories. If 40% of those come from fat, that's 240 calories. So even though you're burning a lower percentage of fat calories when you jog, it is still a greater amount of fat calories and total calories in the end which helps maintain a daily calorie deficit and accordingly a greater chance at weight loss.\n\nThe problem with high-intesity exercise is that it's typically harder mentally and physically so it's difficult to keep up with it unless you program yourself and commit to a tough workout every week. Age and health are also factors. My best advice is to alternate low-intesity and high-intensity to avoid burn out and make workouts more enjoyable and varied. I train this way as do all my clients with excellent results.\n\nHope that gives you a better overview on this subject.\n\nIn the meantime try these useful calculators to assess calorie consumption, and energy expenditure:\n\nTotal Energy Expenditure:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/articles/bmr.html\n\nCalories burned through various activies:\nhttp://www.preventdisease.com/healthtools/tools.html#cbva\n.\n.