Variations in Energy Requirements

• Body size - especially lbm

• Activity:

  • most women decrease activity in last months of pregnancy if they can
  • increased energy cost of moving heavier body

• BMR

  • rises in well nourished women (27%)
  • rises less or not at all in women who are not well nourished

• -Diet Induced Thermogenesis?

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