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It seems appropriate to begin our discussion of nutrients with that concept to which all matter is related; namely, energy. Currently there is a controversy as to whether the kilo-calorie or the joule is the proper unit of energy measurement in the metric system. Rather than concerning ourselves with units, we shall simply use the generic term ‘energy’. Therefore, what you may have heard referred to as the ‘caloric content’ of a food shall be referred to here as its ‘energy content’.
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University of California, Davis, USA
R. A. Freedland (Professor of Physiological Chemistry)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA
Stephanie Briggs (Assistant Professor of Nutrition)
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Freedland, R.A., Briggs, S. (1977). Energy and basal metabolism. In: A Biochemical Approach to Nutrition. Outline Studies in Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5732-9_1
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