posted on 2018-05-02, 15:12authored byPeter S.W. Davies
This thesis is concerned primarily with the measurement of total energy
expenditure in infancy. Until the advent and subsequent development of
the doubly labelled water technique for the assessment of carbon dioxide
production rate in "free-living" individuals measurements of total energy
expenditure in infants and children were virtually impossible. Thus
measurements of total energy expenditure using this relatively new
technique are of burgeoning interest to nutritionists, clinicians and
human biologists. [Continues.]
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Publication date
1991
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.