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The metabolic response of young women to changes in the frequency of meals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Yola E. Swindells
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, University of Otago School of Home Science, Dunedin, New Zealand
Susan A. Holmes
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, University of Otago School of Home Science, Dunedin, New Zealand
Marion F. Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, University of Otago School of Home Science, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Abstract

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1. Six healthy young women residing in a metabolic unit, but continuing their normal activities, received a uniform diet for 27 days, subdivided into four periods of 6 days and a final collection period of 3 days.

2. The daily food was divided into equal-sized portions; the subjects ate their daily quota as three meals a day in periods 1, 3, and 5 (control), two meals in period 2 (gorging), and nine meals in period 4 (nibbling).

3. The metabolic response of each subject was investigated by measurements of energy expenditure, and by analysis of the food, the urine and the faeces.

4.The subjects showed distinct differences in response, but for most subjects the changes in body-weight and in the metabolism of nitrogen and fat appeared unrelated to the frequency of the meals.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1968

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