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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 52, 224-227, Copyright © 1990 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Do obese individuals gain weight more easily than nonobese individuals?

GB Forbes
Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642.

A review of studies done on human subjects who were overfed under controlled conditions for periods ranging from 2 to 12 wk shows that the energy cost of induced weight gain is a function of initial body weight and of lean body mass, body fat, and percent body fat. Therefore, bigger and fatter people need to eat more to gain a given amount of weight than do those who are thin. A likely explanation is that obese individuals tend to put on a large proportion of fat, a high- energy tissue, whereas thin people tend to gain more lean, which is a low-energy tissue.


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