Infants burn more calories than any age group, even teens. Learn more at NSF ' s The Discovery Files.

An international team of scientists, funded in part by NSF, analyzed the average number of calories burned by more than 6,600 people, across 29 countries, ranging in age from one week to 95 years and learned that infants had the highest metabolic rate, burning calories faster than all other age ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.
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