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SUBMITTER: Heymsfield SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6410366 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heymsfield Steven B SB Thomas Diana M DM Bosy-Westphal Anja A Müller Manfred J MJ
European journal of clinical nutrition 20180925 2
Body mass in humans and animals is strongly associated with the rate of heat production as defined by resting energy expenditure (REE). Beginning with the ancient Greeks up to the present time, philosophers and scientists have endeavored to understand the nature and sources of bodily heat. Today we recognize that body mass consists of organs and tissues, each of which produces a specified amount of heat at rest. An individual organ's REE can now be estimated in vivo as the product of its assumed ...[more]