A critical review on the role of food and nutrition in the energy balance

S Bo, M Fadda, D Fedele, M Pellegrini, E Ghigo… - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The mass media has increasingly frequently suggested to the general population that
specific foods or nutritional schemes are able to affect both human metabolism and energy …

Link between food energy density and body weight changes in obese adults

M Stelmach-Mardas, T Rodacki, J Dobrowolska-Iwanek… - Nutrients, 2016 - mdpi.com
Regulating the energy density of food could be used as a novel approach for successful
body weight reduction in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to conduct a systemic …

How large is the energy gap that accounts for the obesity epidemic?

SB Heymsfield - The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2009 - ajcn.nutrition.org
Humans are gaining excess weight, and alarmed scientists generally agree on the cause:
positive energy balance beyond that needed to maintain a healthy weight. After all, body …

Energy balance and its components: implications for body weight regulation123

KD Hall, SB Heymsfield, JW Kemnitz… - The American journal …, 2012 - ajcn.nutrition.org
A fundamental principle of nutrition and metabolism is that body weight change is
associated with an imbalance between the energy content of food eaten and energy …

Dietary strategies for weight management

BJ Rolls - Obesity Treatment and Prevention: New Directions, 2012 - karger.com
In an 'obesogenic'environment, getting people to eat appropriate amounts is challenging.
Several food-based strategies have the potential to promote satiety and moderate energy …

Macronutrients as sources of food energy

AM Prentice - Public health nutrition, 2005 - cambridge.org
This background paper considers the extent to which the development of new
recommendations for dietary energy requirements needs to account for the macronutrient …

Getting energy balance right in an obesogenic world

JB Moore, C Boesch - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2019 - cambridge.org
Currently the world is facing an incredibly costly epidemic of obesity. Almost two-thirds of UK
adults are either overweight or obese with estimated financial costs to the UK economy …

Effect of diet composition and weight loss on resting energy expenditure in the POUNDS LOST study

L De Jonge, GA Bray, SR Smith, DH Ryan… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Weight loss reduces energy expenditure, but it is unclear whether dietary macronutrient
composition affects this reduction. We hypothesized that energy expenditure might be …

[HTML][HTML] Do lower-carbohydrate diets increase total energy expenditure? An updated and reanalyzed meta-analysis of 29 controlled-feeding studies

DS Ludwig, SL Dickinson, B Henschel… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The effect of macronutrient composition on total energy expenditure (TEE)
remains controversial, with divergent findings among studies. One source of heterogeneity …

Protein, carbohydrates, and fats: Energy metabolism

P Singh, RK Kesharwani, RK Keservani - Sustained Energy for Enhanced …, 2017 - Elsevier
The composition of the diet, specifically carbohydrates, protein, and lipids, has been in
medicine since antiquity for the purposes of quick recovery and the digestive system. The …