In five minutes a human will burn around 350 joules (J) of energy per kilogram of body mass. A kilogram of mice will burn 3,000 J in the same time, and a 4,000- kg African elephant will burn just 200 J per kilogram. On a gram-for-gram basis, large animals burn less energy and require less…
Read moreCrispim et al , 2007 The influence of sleep and sleep loss upon food intake and metabolism Nutrition Research Reviews vol 20 195-212This review looks at the role of sleep and its alteration in influencing metabolic disorders. A reduction in the amount of time spent sleeping has become an endemic condition in modern society. There…
Read moreMetabolomics: an emerging post-genomic tool for nutritionMetabolomics is the study of the raw materials and products of the body’s biochemical reactions. Metabolomics is concerned with the analysis and measurement of global sets of low-molecular-weight compounds in urine, blood or some other body fluid, scanned in a NMR spectroscopy or Mass Spectrometer and to provide a…
Read moreA good knowledge of metabolism is essential fot a career in Nutrition. This article in Nature is a wonderful essay in metabolic controls.Metabolic pathways Reinhart Heinrich Nature 2006 447, p700Pioneer in systems biology.In biology, mathematical systems analysis was until recently nearly invisible in the dazzling light of twentieth-century discoveries. But it has emerged from the…
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