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What percentage of calories that you take in every day are consumed by your brain's activity?

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20%

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Your brain consumes about 20% of our daily intake of calories. That's about 400-500 calories for a man and 350-400 for a woman. Studies show that the brain is very metabolically active and will actually burn about 109 calories per pound of its mass per day.

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