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23rd December 2018
08:01am GMT

“The average woman has a basal metabolic rate (BMR) of 1,400 calories per day. That means, if she lays in bed for 24 hours, she will burn 1,400 calories. But I see women who are shorter than 5 feet with BMRs of 1,200 calories, and some who are 5’10” or so at 1,750 or more per day.”
So, basically, the shorter you are the less lean mass (muscle, bones, organs) you have, which is one of the main factors to losing weight.
From that, the PLOS ONE research paper found that the size of people's organs accounts for their basal metabolic rates.
And because shorter people have smaller organs, they don't need to burn as much energy to use them, therefore, we just don't burn as much overall.
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