Recommended Daily Caloric Intake

Is the recommended daily iron intake for women too low?

Caloric intake necessary for weight maintenance in anorexia nervosa: nonbulimics require greater caloric intake than bulimics.

In the past decade, patients with anorexia nervosa have been subdivided by the presence or absence of binging-and-purging behavior. Psychologic, physiologic, and premorbid weight differences have also been discovered between these subgroups. We now report that nonbulimic anorectics required 30-50% more caloric intake than bulimic anorectics to maintain a stable weight. This difference in calori...

Commonly recommended daily intake of vitamin D is not sufficient if sunlight exposure is limited.

OBJECTIVES Sunlight exposure of the skin is known to be the most important source of vitamin D. The aims of this study were: (i) to estimate vitamin D status amongst sunlight-deprived individuals (veiled Arab women, veiled ethnic Danish Moslem women and Danish controls); and (ii) through food intake analysis to estimate the oral intake of vitamin D necessary to keep a normal vitamin D status in...

Effects of Obesity and Caloric Intake

A B S T R A C r The effects of obesity and caloric intake on biliary lipid metabolism were investigated in a series of related studies. The degree of saturation of gallbladder bile with cholesterol was found to be significantly higher in a group of 23 obese healthy subjects than in a group of 23 nonobese controls matched for age, sex, and race. Bile was also significantly more saturated in 11 o...

Non-caloric regulation of food intake

Klockars, A. 2014. Non-caloric regulation of food intake. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1007. 54 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8966-3. Food intake is shaped by environmental, endocrine, metabolic, and reward-related signals. A change in appetite is an outcome of integration of the relevant external and intern...