Explain how the body size affects energy requirement in human beings.

      

The question is from the topic of nutrition in plants and animals, subtopic; energy requirement in humans.

  

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Prince
Body size is one of the factors that affect energy requirement in humans. Small bodied people have a large surface area to volume ratio hence they lose more energy in form of heat to the surrounding compared to that large bodied people. Therefore Small bodied people require more energy per day than Large bodied people under the same condition.
prince the mathematics expert answered the question on January 12, 2020 at 03:51


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