According to this theory/review, the cross-culturally common finding of more women than
men among the obese is at least in part a consequence of sex differences in evolutionary …

Les femmes différent passablement des hommes sur le plan des mécanismes de l'utilisation
des substrats et de l'homéostasie énergétique. En période de bilan énergétique négatif …

Gender Differences in Metabolism: Practical and Nutritional Implications is the first book to
successfully integrate nutritional science, exercise physiology/medicine, and metabolism …

The study of metabolism has traditionally focused upon factors that influence metabolic rate,
at levels of both the metabolic pathway and the whole organism. This paper focuses on the …

Selection was carried out in a line of pigs for increased growth rate of lean tissue. The
selection criterion was weight of lean in the ham predicted from live backfat and weight …

The rôle of voluntary food intake, measured as daily food consumption on ad libitum feeding
from 30 to 90 kg live weight, in future selection strategy is reviewed. Intake shows a …

A pig herd was selected for 6 years by using an economic index combining growth rate, food
conversion efficiency and carcass leanness. These three traits were all measured in a …

Mice investigated in this study were generated by selecting a sub-population of the NMRI
out-bred stock (C), for high (H) or low (L) 8-week body weight. After 58 generations of …

Background Selection for body weight provides important animal models for studying
mechanisms of growth regulation. This study evaluated growth responses of the …

Although deposition of agram of fat has the same energy cost as deposition of agram of
protein (Webster, 1980), fat tissue is 20% water as compared with 80% water for lean. Thus …