Normal Growth and Development during Adolescence

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Adolescent Changes in Physiologic Functions Basal Metabolism There is of course an increase in the number of basal calories consumed per hour by the body as it increases in size year by year, and this is greater during pubescence than previously because the body size is increasing more rapidly. There is, however, less clear evidence regarding any fundamental increase in the basal metabolic rate associated with pubescence that is not explained on the basis of increased amount of active protoplasmic tissue.In a comprehensive study of basal metabolism in girls, Talbot, Wilson and Worcester45 in 1937 investigated the effects of . . .

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