basal metabolism
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“That’s another contributor to your overall energy expenditure, in addition to basal metabolism and active energy expenditure.”
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
The relationship between basal metabolism and weight is complicated, however, Pontzer says.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
Its hormones regulate basal metabolism, oxygen use, nutrient metabolism, the production of ATP, and calcium homeostasis.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
As a result of Depression many hospitals have lately been giving cheap diagnostic services to put their expensive xray, basal metabolism and other machines to some profitable use.
From Time Magazine Archive
Graham, quoted on minimal cost of food, 190–194; experiments by, to ascertain basal metabolism of body, 196.
From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Fisher, Irving
