Comment by icedistilled

Since the article is comparing non-fat mass is this saying that someone with 60kg of non-fat mass will burn the same amount of calories if 1. their overall mass is 75 kg and they're athletic or 2. have more fat mass being 85 kg overall and non-athletic? I'm not sure what i'm missing but that isn't shocking or surprising. I feel like someone's trying to pull a fast one here.

"female farmers in western Africa used the same amount of energy daily when adjusted for fat-free body mass as women in Chicago —about 2400 kilocalories for a 75-kilogram woman. "