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Diet-Induced Thermogenesis

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Advances in Nutritional Research

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Mammals must take in large quantities of food, sometimes equivalent to their own body weight each day, in order to meet the energy requirements of processes such as maintenance, growth, activity, thermoregulation, pregnancy, and lactation. It is therefore remarkable to observe that in adults of most species energy intake is equal to expenditure, and thus energy balance and body weight are maintained over long periods of time. Even in young animals, in which body weight is continuously increasing, the rate of energy deposition is often relatively unaffected by external factors. It seems that both intake and output can vary and that either one of these parameters may change to compensate for variations in the other, so that energy balance is restored or maintained. For example, metabolic rate varies with environmental temperature and this produces compensatory changes in food intake and conversely, food restriction causes a fall in energy expenditure and an increased efficiency of food utilization. An extension of this concept would suggest that increases in food intake might elicit a rise in expenditure, but although many studies over the past 80 years have provided support for this suggestion, it has become widely accepted only recently.

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Rothwell, N.J., Stock, M.J. (1983). Diet-Induced Thermogenesis. In: Draper, H.H. (eds) Advances in Nutritional Research. Advances in Nutritional Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9937-7_9

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