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Energetics of Maintenance and Growth

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Mammalian Thermogenesis

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This chapter is concerned with the factors that determine the utilization of food energy for the maintenance of life and the efficiency with which food energy surplus to that required for maintenance can be used to promote growth. The subject, of course, dates back to Lavoisier and de la Place (1784) and many of the basic concepts that I shall use in this chapter are the same now as then. There have been a number of classic treatises on energy metabolism of which the most famous five must be, in chronological order, Kellner (1900), Rubner (1902), Brody (1945), Kleiber (1961) and Blaxter (1962). All these contain both information and ideas which are still valuable to the modern student of energy metabolism. Indeed, most of the controversies in energy metabolism, such as that concerning diet-induced thermogenesis, have arisen several times during its history and each time have been resolved reasonably satisfactorily in the light of the information available at the time. Bernard Shaw said, ‘Every good scientific discovery should be made once every ten years,’ which is fair comment since each time a theory is repeated it is usually in the light of new evidence. It should not, however, be necessary each time to start from square one. There are giants in the field of energy metabolism. We should have the humility and good sense to stand on their shoulders.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Lucien Girardier (Professor of Physiology) (Professor of Physiology)

  2. St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK

    Michael J. Stock (Reader in Physiology) (Reader in Physiology)

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Webster, A.J.F. (1983). Energetics of Maintenance and Growth. In: Girardier, L., Stock, M.J. (eds) Mammalian Thermogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6032-2_6

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