Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet (Classic Reprint)

Francis Gano Benedict, Walter R. Miles

ISBN 10: 1331944244 / ISBN 13: 9781331944249

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2024

Beschreibung

Print on Demand. Investigating the impact of reduced food intake on vitality and efficiency, this book documents a comprehensive study led by the renowned Nutrition Laboratory. The groundbreaking research examined the hypothesis that lowering dietary consumption could significantly reduce human metabolism without compromising physical and cognitive performance. Challenging the prevailing notion that low metabolism was exclusively associated with fasting or extreme illness, the study sought to establish whether a controlled reduction in food intake could induce similar metabolic changes. The authors meticulously describe their methodology, including the use of respiration calorimeters and other cutting-edge techniques to measure energy expenditure and physiological responses. Through rigorous experimentation with human subjects, the book presents compelling evidence that a substantial reduction in calorie intake can indeed lower basal metabolism. However, the authors also demonstrate that this metabolic adaptation does not impair physical or intellectual capacity. Participants maintained their strength, endurance, and cognitive abilities despite consuming significantly fewer calories. This book significantly advances our understanding of human metabolic adaptation and challenges the conventional wisdom that equates low food intake with diminished vitality and efficiency. Its findings have important implications for nutrition science, weight management, and our overall comprehension of the human body's remarkable ability to adjust to changing environmental conditions. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet (Classic Reprint)
• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1331944244
• ISBN-13: 9781331944249
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Buchtyp: print-on-demand item
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Health and Fitness

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Excerpt from Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet

It has not been the custom of the Nutrition Laboratory to direct its researches primarily for economic and sociological purposes; yet in View of its long-continued study of people with a low intake of food and conceivably low metabolism, and the not remote possibility that America might be obliged to undergo privations similar to those in Germany, although probably in less degree, it seemed eminently fitting for the Laboratory to study a question so important from the stand points of patriotism, economy, and physiology, as the effect upon the metabolism of a reduction in diet. The extensive research which is reported in this publication is, in the last analysis, a furthering of the initial problem studied by the Nutrition Laboratory, i. E., a search for conditions resulting in subnormal metabolism. It was planned in detail in the spring of 1917 and carried out during the winter of 1917 - 18 with a selected group of normal individuals whose body-weight was lowered as a result of quantitative reductions in their diet.

Before giving the details and discussing the results of this research, a general history will be given of the experimental work leading up to the present study, together with brief abstracts and a critique of the work of other investigators on metabolism with a low intake of food.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.