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Mammalian Thermogenesis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Mammalian Thermogenesis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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an attempt to rationalize these terminological and conceptual
difficulties we have considered the origins of mammalian heat
production from two different points of view. The scheme depicted
in Fig. 1. 1 illustrates the fate of energy in the body as seen by
the nutritionist. After allowing for losses of energy in faeces and
urine, the metabolizable energy obtained from food is utilized for
main taining and increasing body energy content (maintenance,
external work, growth and production). The transformation of
metabolizable energy into these forms of net energy also involves
inevitable energy losses in the form of heat - thermic energy.
Similarly, maintaining homeothermy in cold en vironments involves
shivering and non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) and the energy
costs of assimilating nutrients and retaining net energy results in
obligatory heat losses due to diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT).
This obligatory DIT is mainly due to the energy cost of protein and
fat synthesis but, in addition to this, there is an adaptive
component of DIT that helps maintain body energy content (i. e.
body weight) by dissipating the metabolizable energy consumed in
excess of the requirements for maintenance, growth and production.
In Fig. 1. 2, we have converted this nutritionist's scheme (A) into
one that A B r-------. . ., I I Production, Growth I I External
work I I I I Essential energy expenditure NET BASAL Obligatory 1 I
ENERGY Maintenance HEAT heat I FASTING at (BMR) productlpn for t
ROC thermoneutrallty homeothermia r."
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