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From individual variation in energy intakes...to variations in energy requirements and adaptations to them
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2018
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Dr Widdowson and Professor McCance always expressed a great deal of interest in the inter-individual variability in their scientific data considering that extreme values often provided the most revealing results. Their interest developed as a result of Dr Widdowson’s studies of the individual diets of men, women and children conducted in the 1930s; she later used the phrase ‘nutritional individuality’ to describe between-individual variability in intake and expenditure (Widdowson, 1962). This paper continues Dr Widdowson’s theme of individual variability. It focuses on recent data which describe between-individual differences in daily energy expenditure, particularly the extremes, and also on the insights these have given into the measurements of energy intake (EI).
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