If you tend to be one of those people who taps their foot, picks their nails, drums their fingers, or moves around in their seat, there may be some good news. Although your fidgeting may be annoying to others, researches at the National Institute of Health reports that one of these habits can burn as much as 800 calories per day. If you want to lose weight, this might help.
For someone who fidgets as above, how many calories per hour are burned up? Assume the person sleeps 8 hours per day, and doesn't fidget while asleep.
If 4 is added to twice a number and this sum is multiplied by 2, the result is the same as if the multiped by 3 and 4 is added to the product.
16 hours per day are available for fidgeting.
800/16 = __ per hour
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To calculate the number of calories burned per hour by fidgeting, we first need to determine the total number of waking hours in a day.
Since the person sleeps for 8 hours per day, the number of waking hours is 24 - 8 = 16 hours.
Next, we need to find out the number of calories burned per day by fidgeting. The given information states that fidgeting can burn up to 800 calories per day.
To find the number of calories burned per hour, we divide the total daily calories burned by the number of waking hours:
800 calories / 16 hours = 50 calories per hour.
Therefore, for someone who fidgets as described above, they would burn approximately 50 calories per hour.