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Originally Posted by baro-san
... exercise, or more specifically, strength training, can help support a healthy metabolism. After all, pound per pound, muscle burns more calories than fat. However, the difference might not be as big as you think: four calories, to be precise. A pound of fat burns two calories per day, and a pound muscle burns six. To put that into perspective, losing two pounds of fat and replacing it with two pounds of muscle will increase your resting metabolic rate by only eight calories per day.
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Citation?
According to these figures, a pound of muscle burns
3 times, 300%, more calories than a pound of fat.
This also seems to assume the muscle isn't being exercised.