Right. Modern sciencey whatnot. Break sits back a bit to explain this.
"The way your body works is that it converts the food you eat into energy and that's how it runs, right?" Right. "Well, your metabolism is sort of -- it's the rate at which your body does that. The more active a person you are, the more energy you need to burn just to keep yourself going.
"So someone like -- I dunno, like Miss Ada, who isn't particularly physically strong -- she only has to eat a fairly normal amount to have enough energy. But someone like me or Alice, who bofe have a lot of muscle and spend a great deal of time running around -- we burn energy a lot faster, even just sitting, so we need to eat a whole lot more to keep going."
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Right. Modern sciencey whatnot. Break sits back a bit to explain this.
"The way your body works is that it converts the food you eat into energy and that's how it runs, right?" Right. "Well, your metabolism is sort of -- it's the rate at which your body does that. The more active a person you are, the more energy you need to burn just to keep yourself going.
"So someone like -- I dunno, like Miss Ada, who isn't particularly physically strong -- she only has to eat a fairly normal amount to have enough energy. But someone like me or Alice, who bofe have a lot of muscle and spend a great deal of time running around -- we burn energy a lot faster, even just sitting, so we need to eat a whole lot more to keep going."