...). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2018 Accuracy Basal Metabolic Rate Energy Expenditure Indirect Calorimetry Metabolic Carts Reliability Determination of resting metabolic rate (RMR) is essential for establishing the energy requirements of vital body...

... and protein intakes ad libitum . The other group, designated ‘undernourished’, were labourers on daily wages (mean body mass index 16.7 kg/m 2 ). 2. In an earlier study we obtained lower absolute values for both basal metabolic rate and protein synthesis in the undernourished subjects; however, when the data...

... of 22; the other group, ‘underweight controls', had a mean body mass index of 16.7. The third group consisted of poor labourers, whose daily food intake had been less than 10 MJ and whose mean body mass index was 16.6. Previous studies had shown that such men had a lower basal metabolic rate than well...