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In human feeding-behavior experiments, the free-living condition in which feeding is unrestricted and subjects (as in real life) are free to eat when they want and as much as they want, is called the ad-libitum (literally, the “at pleasure”) condition.
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Hamid, T.K. (2009). Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us?. In: Thinking in Circles About Obesity. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09469-4_7
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