… food we eat or do not eat is a product of the metabolic activity of plants and animals. One hears
of metabolic … , of metabolisms speeding up and slowing down, of “having” a metabolism. “…

… of food and metabolism. Rather than the chemical conversion of food to energy and body
matter of classic metabolism, food is … It is thought that food in prenatal and early postnatal life …

… In summary, the ability of metabolic signals such as leptin and circulating fuels to
modulate brain circuits involved in the procurement of food and its reward value has been …

… of motivational drive by hypothalamic metabolic sensors, and … food cues. Leptin deficiency
is also characterized by increased metabolic efficiency by conserving energy for metabolic …

In this review I show that four major kinds of theoretical approaches have been used to
explain the scaling of metabolic rate in cells, organisms and groups of organisms in relation to …

… While MFA can describe and quantify all food … of food practices relate to household food
metabolism. We propose to address a methodological question: How can a metabolism study be …

… metabolic water is not only produced in considerable quantity from the organic constituents
of the food … SOURCES OF METABOLIC WATER The most obvious source of metabolic water …

… living conditions. The present study examines changes in metabolic rate immediately after
restriction of food so as to include the initial response to decreased intake of food. Two groups …

… In the present study we measured the sleeping metabolic rate (SMR) and have assumed
this to be 5% less than BMR, which is higher on account of the energy cost of arousal (…

… Metabolic rates during daylight hours were about 6.8 x BMR, … We estimated nighttime
metabolism to be near 2.1 x BMR, … and is more than twice our estimates of daytime metabolic rate. …