TITLE

Metabolic obesity?

PUB. DATE

January 1981

SOURCE

British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition);1/17/1981, Vol. 282 Issue 6259, p172

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the relevance of an energy-saving metabolism to obesity. Evidence on obese people showing a smaller increase in metabolic rate; Comparison of the energy expenditure between obese individuals with lean ones; Thermogenic response to cold as one determinant of obesity.

ACCESSION #

4908247

Tags: METABOLISM -- Disorders;  OBESITY

 

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