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If our health depends on the balance between energy intake and expenditure, and moderate consumption of foods and appropriate medicines, then there are at least three kinds of model that could be useful to our attempt to understand how to maintain health and prevent disease.
A comparison…would suggest a trend of modern American animals to take the surface law less seriously than did the earlier European animals.
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Hargrove, J.L. (1998). Equations for Model Building: The Surface Law and Body Composition. In: Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1644-5_6
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