Talk:Resting metabolic rate

Jackemeyer (talk) 20:28, 4 March 2016 (UTC): Why are Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) and Basal BMR) treated as sufficiently distinct or even independent from Respirometry? Human or primate metabolism, metabolic rate, and energy expenditure would each fall under "Whole Animal Metabolic Rates").

Last, I have edited the previously unsigned long paragraphs so as to maintain the good bits that should be addressed in this topic on Wikipedia.


 * There is a great inter-individual variation in energy expenditure from the basal state, free-living resting conditions, and during physical activities.
 * Epidemiological info (example is X calories/day normalized by body mass (lean, fat, or the index "BMI").
 * List of factors (Brown fat, liver function, brain function, gut function, drugs, endocrine hormones, involuntary movement
 * Law of Thermo
 * Unknowns
 * List of motivation techniques in body mass (weight) management, organized by time, region, sub-populations and further discussed in contexts of culture & other group characteristics

Resting Metabolic Rate
Resting Metabolic Rate does not vary much between people.

People think, "Oh, I just have a slow metabolism", but that's a misconception.

Lemme know if something like this would be good to include in the article.

Benjamin (talk) 08:28, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Also, what's the difference between Basal metabolic rate and Resting metabolic rate? Benjamin (talk) 06:39, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

It's not a misconception. The link cited literally says "Metabolic rate does vary, and technically there could be large variance. However, statistically speaking it is unlikely the variance would apply to you. The majority of the population exists in a range of 200-300kcal from each other and do not possess hugely different metabolic rates." Just because something is unlikely, doesn't make it impossible. The only way to know for sure is to get professionally tested. Particularly since for a short person a daily 300 kcal difference is huge while for someone who is six feet, it isn't. This is why the formula for calulating RMR takes into account height.

The statement that was in the Wiki itself is misleading. Losing (or gaining) weight is technically as simple as calories in, calories out, but as the second link points out, it's not as simple as saying "3,500 extra calories in is a pound gained, 3,500 fewer calories is a pound lost," which is why they voted to discard that standard, recognizing that that's not how losing and gaining weight works vis a vis metabolism.

Plus, some studies have shown that obese people actually eat fewer calories than thin people. "Among 12- to 14-year-old girls in the study, girls who were very obese ate about 300 fewer calories on average daily than obese girls, and obese girls consumed 110 fewer calories daily than healthy-weight girls." (With the following paragraph regarding boys.) https://www.livescience.com/23057-overweight-teens-kids-calories-weight-loss.html

We also don't know precisely what impact gut bacteria has on weight. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-help-make-us-fat-and-thin/

So to sum, the statement was not correct, did not reflect its own sources, and did not reflect all current research on obesity. It was simply a type of fat shaming.

RMR Tools:

Wide variety of tools and devices available in the market nowadays to track RMR based fitness and exercises. Tools can also target day to day activities and how RMR can be used to determine the amount of energy expended by each individuals, personalised to their body measurements and types of activities.

For instance, Scientific Fitness Tracker by TryAround uses RMR to estimate energy expended for nearly 900 activities. Unfortunately this tools is just an app only available for iPhone users. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1219623151?ls=1&mt=8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.146.14.165 (talk) 12:13, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Equation/Formula
I think it'd be great to include (the same way it is included for the BMR article) formulas that are used to calculate RMR Esteban Outeiral Dias (talk) 01:47, 21 January 2022 (UTC)