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Nutrition, Calories

Known as: cals, nutrition calorie, Calorie (nutrition) 
A measurement of the energy content of food. The body needs calories as to perform its functions, such as breathing, circulating the blood, and… (More)
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Energy IntakeEnergy MetabolismMeal (occasion for eating)Percent energy intake

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Nutrition, Calories
Energy Metabolism
Energy Intake
Meal (occasion for eating)
Percent energy intake

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Hunger is the best spice: an fMRI study of the effects of attention, hunger and calorie content on food reward processing in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex.
Research indicates that dysfunctional food reward processing may contribute to pathological eating behaviour. It is widely… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Biasing Health Halos of Fast-Food Restaurant Health Claims: Lower Calorie Estimates and Higher Side-Dish Consumption Intentions
Why is America a land of low-calorie food claims yet high-calorie food intake? Four studies show that people are more likely to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Demand for Food and Calories
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The link between short sleep duration and obesity: we should recommend more sleep to prevent obesity.
W e are currently facing a major obesity pandemic. Most alarming is the accelerated increase in overweight and obesity in… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Calories Do Not Explain Extension of Life Span by Dietary Restriction in Drosophila
Dietary restriction (DR) extends life span in diverse organisms, including mammals, and common mechanisms may be at work. DR is… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Energy-dense snack food intake in adolescence: longitudinal relationship to weight and fatness.
OBJECTIVE The longitudinal relationship between the consumption of energy-dense snack (EDS) foods and relative weight change… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
A randomized trial comparing a very low carbohydrate diet and a calorie-restricted low fat diet on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors in healthy women.
Untested alternative weight loss diets, such as very low carbohydrate diets, have unsubstantiated efficacy and the potential to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Intermittent fasting dissociates beneficial effects of dietary restriction on glucose metabolism and neuronal resistance to injury from calorie intake.
Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Caloric intake and the risk of Alzheimer disease.
BACKGROUND Diet may play a role in Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To examine the association between caloric intake and AD… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Calibration of the dietary questionnaire for a multiethnic cohort in Hawaii and Los Angeles.
The performance of the dietary questionnaire used in a multiethnic cohort study in Hawaii and Los Angeles was assessed in a… (More)
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