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Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat at rest. Yet somehow, the couch still wins.

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Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, so it burns more calories per kilogram even while resting. The difference isn’t magic-level huge, but gaining muscle can slightly raise basal metabolic rate over time.

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