Energy Balance and Its Components: Implications for Body Weight Regulation

Overview

Journal Am J Clin Nutr

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Nutritional Sciences

Date 2012 Mar 22

PMID 22434603

Citations 271

Authors

Kevin D Hall

Steven B Heymsfield

Joseph W Kemnitz

Samuel Klein

Dale A Schoeller

John R Speakman

Affiliations

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