low metabolic rate

People also thought they were big because of their low metabolic rate.

"People who become obese have low metabolic rates to begin with."

In this respect, they may truly have a lower metabolic rate.

A lower metabolic rate means the body burns fewer calories.

It found no evidence that the women had either lower metabolic rates or smaller weight losses over time.

And muscle actually has a very low metabolic rate when it is at rest, which is most of the time.

Furthermore, having a lower metabolic rate is less energetically expensive.

Armadillos have a low metabolic rate, and they can't live in cold weather.

It also consumes the least amount of water and has the lowest metabolic rate among its tribal relatives.

"The ones who had, had significantly lower metabolic rates."

They have an extremely low metabolic rate, do not expend much energy to regulate body temperature and require little oxygen.

A lower metabolic rate makes it easier to gain weight because you don't burn calories as fast.

A low metabolic rate of heat production.

Too much of it causes acidosis, which can kill animals, especially marine organisms with low metabolic rates.

This is due to a drastically reduced body mass, as well as the ability to take advantage of a low metabolic rate.

People watching TV have a lower metabolic rate than people engaged in other activities like reading or playing board games, he said.

Such a strategy may have been forced on them by their low metabolic rate (the lowest among the therians).

Coelacanths also appear to have the lowest metabolic rates among vertebrates.

Golden moles have a low metabolic rate and are able to enter into a state of torpor in response to cold temperatures.

"Restrained eaters," he said, are people who control their eating habits carefully but, for reasons unknown, have a low metabolic rate.

Dr. Greenwood and others proposed that the rats had lower metabolic rates as a result of dieting.

Their low metabolic rate in turn allowed them to subsist on less abundant and/or less nutritious food sources.

This is a consequence of the animal being cold-blooded, the harsh environmental conditions in which it lives and the low metabolic rate that ensues.

Their low metabolic rate and poor thermoregulation make them best suited for semitropical environments.

Reduced estrogen may also lower metabolic rate, the rate at which the body converts stored energy into working energy.