proper feeding is necessary to have appropriate growth, health and also to increase resistance to inappropriate condition such as stressors and diseases. therefore mineral and vitamin supplements are added to fish diet to improve its growth and health. food supplements have different roles in diet. these cause better food metabolism, higher hardness and strength of bones, better ionic exchanges...

The results of measurements of basal metabolic rate in patients with obesity and anorexia nervosa have suggested that the basal metabolic activity of cell mass is altered in these diseases. It has been shown repeatedly that basal metabolism, expressed as oxygen consumption per unit of time, is high in obesity and low in anorexia nervosa. When the oxygen consumption per unit of time is referred ...

The first measurements of the basal metabolism of the young calf were reported by Brody (1930), who used the indirect calorimetric method of measuring oxygen consumption by means of a closed-circuit spirometer. Determinations were made on forty-three calves of less than 3 weeks of age but most of the values obtained were restricted to ages of 10-21 days. No definite trends during the first 3 we...

The studies reported below were made on two groups of individuals who had suffered severe restriction of food intake over periods of not less than 6 months and extending in some over I year. Group I comprised severely emaciated adults of both sexes, a high proportion of them elderly, admitted to hospital in The Hague, Holland, during the months of May and June 1945. Weight losses in this group ...