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The link between muscle mass or calorie burn and how much you eat gets weaker the older you get.

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Fat-Free Mass and Total Daily Energy Expenditure Estimated using Doubly Labelled Water Predict Energy Intake in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

Cross-Sectional Study
Human
2022 Apr 1

The study found that as older people get older, their body’s need to eat more when they have more muscle or burn more calories becomes less strong — which is exactly what the claim says.

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Fat-Free Mass and Total Daily Energy Expenditure Estimated using Doubly Labelled Water Predict Energy Intake in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

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DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxab434

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How much fat a person has doesn’t seem to affect how much they eat, but how much muscle they have or how many calories they burn does.

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Older people with more muscle tend to eat more, but this link gets weaker as they get older.

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Older adults who burn more calories each day tend to eat more, but this link gets weaker as they get older.

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Even when men ate the same number of total calories, those who ate fewer meals were still more likely to be obese, meaning it’s not just about how much they eat, but when and how often.

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If you eat the same amount of food with the same carbs, fats, and calories—but just change how many AGEs (chemicals formed when food is cooked at high heat) are in it—for six weeks, your blood sugar, cholesterol, and related body signals don’t change. So, those cooked-food chemicals probably don’t mess with your metabolism in the short term.

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