Energy Gap Useful Tool For Successful Weight Loss Maintenance Strategy
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 12:07
in Health & Medicine
The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change in energy balance (intake and expenditure) behaviors required to achieve and sustain reduced body weight outcomes in individuals and populations. In a new commentary, researchers more precisely clarify the concept of the energy gap (or energy gaps) and discuss how the concept can be properly used as a tool to help understand and address obesity.