Muse News
Feb 01, 2022
2 minutes
BY ELIZABETH PRESTON
PHYSIOLOGY
Toddler Power
Our bodies use energy all day long. We need energy not just to run and jump, but to breathe and eat and use our brains. But we don’t burn the same amount of energy throughout our lives. The biggest energy users are actually some of the tiniest people.
Scientists studied how much energy humans burn in a day, from newborns to people in their nineties. They found
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