Nature 251, 710 - 711 (25 October 1974); doi:10.1038/251710a0

Control of food intake by energy supply

F. M. TOATES^* & D. A. BOOTH^†

^*Preston Polytechnic, Preston, UK
^†Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363 Birmingham, UK

A WIDE variety of metabolic influences on appetite have been proposed, including glucose utilisation rate¹, influences from adipose tissue^2,3 or plasma amino acid pattern^4,5 and the heat increment during absorption of a meal⁶. It is difficult to relate short term effects of the metabolism of absorbed nutrients which indeed occur⁷, to the long term precision with which energy exchange is often regulated.

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