Estimating the changes in energy flux that characterize the rise in obesity prevalence
Open Access
- 1 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 89 (6) , 1723-1728
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.27061
Abstract
Background: The daily energy imbalance gap associated with the current population weight gain in the obesity epidemic is relatively small. However, tKeywords
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