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How many more calories does muscle burn than fat?

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Muscles are typically inactive except during exercise, and a special type of fat — called brown fat — activates only in the cold to help warm us up.

When on standby, these two tissues burn very few calories and thus have a negligible impact on weight loss.

Growing muscles through resistance training can help people burn more calories when they exercise.

Kamal Nahas works as a microscopist at the Diamond Light Source , the U.K. 's synchrotron.

When he's not writing, you can find him hunting for fossils on the Jurassic Coast .

Nahas' work has appeared in New Scientist , Science and The Scientist.

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