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Control of food intake by energy supply

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A WIDE variety of metabolic influences on appetite have been proposed, including glucose utilisation rate1, influences from adipose tissue2,3 or plasma amino acid pattern4,5 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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