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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by obpe on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:34PM (#30389366)
That's very interesting because with some more napkin math...

If we assume 3500 additional calories is 1 lb of fat stored on your body, then 3500/300 = 11.6 days you gained 1lb

Assuming 6 months is 180 days, then 180/11.6 = 15.5 lbs over 6 months

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by coryfklein on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:49PM (#30389559)
Also the article did say specifically that the hunter-gatherers were within 10% TEE of the average US person. That's order-of-magnitude in line with the 300 calories/day, given that the NHS recommended calories/day for men is 2500 and 10% of that is 250 calories.
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