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This is how your metabolism changes throughout your life

A person in their 90s needs 26% fewer calories each day than someone in midlife. [Reuters]

Your metabolism, the rate at which you burn calories, peaks much earlier in life, and starts its inevitable decline later than you might guess, a new study shows.

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