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Energy: Caloric Requirements

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Nutrition and the Adult

Part of the book series: Human Nutrition ((HUNU,volume 3A))

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The science of bioenergetics, as we know it today, was perhaps initiated with the studies of Lavoisier (1743–1794), who discovered the principles of in vivo and in vitro oxidation and combustion. He ascertained that the intensity of metabolism was dependent upon physical work, environmental temperature, and food intake. He devised an ice calorimeter to study the body heat emanating from guinea pigs and determined that oxygen was utilized by the metabolizing body and that a gas was given off (carbon dioxide) that was the same as that produced when acid was added to limestone. Lavoisier appreciated the chemical identity of the oxidative process of carbon and the burning of carbon in a candle flame.

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