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How do thin people stay that way? More activity is not always the answer

Scientists find that underweight study participants in China engage in less physical activity than normal-weight counterparts.
Close up of a man in bare feet standing on a weighing scale next to some sandals

Study participants with very low weights for their height expended around 12% less energy than normal-weight participants. Credit: Getty

For some very slender people, exercise is not the key to their leanness1.

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Nature 607, 424 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01909-3

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  1. Hu, S. et al. Cell Metab. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2022.05.012 (2022).

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