Chameleon said:
Tarheel91 said: The thing this common belief ignores is that metabolism is related to muscle mass. The more muscle you have relative to your total weight, the higher your metabolism (of course, other things factor in, but muscle mass is directly related to metabolism). Guess how you build muscle? Excercise/working out.
For every ten pounds of fat that you convert to muscle, you burn about forty extra calories per hour when not, y’know, exercising, which equates to about a teaspoon of butter for most people… Or at least, that’s what I’ve heard. o.o;;
Source? O_o By the way, if that was true, that’d be an extra 960 calories you could consume per day.