Energy Balance in Motion

• Main Author: Westerterp, Klaas R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Nutrition.; Sports medicine.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Biomedicine general.; Sports Medicine.

Energy balance can be maintained by adapting energy intake to changes in energy expenditure and vice versa, where short-term changes in energy expenditure are mainly caused by physical activity. Questions are whether physical activity is affected by over and under-eating, is intake affected by an in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, energy balance in animals
• Energy balance
• Limits in energy expenditure
• Energy expenditure, physical activity, body weight and body composition
• Extremes in energy intake
• Body weight
• Growth, growth efficiency and ageing
• Modern man in line with wild mammals
• Appendix: Simple and valid energy requirement calculation.  .