However, the ratio of energy supplied by protein to total energy expenditure increased during starvation, from 38.84% at the beginning to 84.13% at the death of fish.

但蛋白质为代谢提供的能量相对于脂肪提供的能量的比例随饥饿时间的延长而增大，由饥饿开始时的38.84%上升至饥饿致死前的84.13%。

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The population with 40 percent obese people requires 19 percent more food energy for its total energy expenditure than the population with 3.5 percent obese people, the study showed.

研究显示，拥有40%肥胖率的人口，其所需能源消耗要比肥胖率为3.5%的人口多19%。

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Dr. Ludwig said those on the low-carb diet had the biggest boost in total energy expenditure, burning about 300 calories more per day than those on the low-fat diet about the same as an hour of moderate exercise.

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What this is all suggests is that the human spirit in its most daring moments has actually manifested physical attenuations of energy expenditure, reducing the tally of total energy consumption by exponential multiples undreamed of a few generations ago.

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