Title: REGULATION OF ENERGY INTAKE AND THE BODY WEIGHT: THE GLUCOSTATIC THEORY AND THE LIPOSTATIC HYPOTHESIS
Abstract: Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 63, Issue 1 p. 15-43 REGULATION OF ENERGY INTAKE AND THE BODY WEIGHT: THE GLUCOSTATIC THEORY AND THE LIPOSTATIC HYPOTHESIS Jean Mayer, Jean Mayer Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.Search for more papers by this author Jean Mayer, Jean Mayer Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.Search for more papers by this author First published: July 1955 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1955.tb36543.xCitations: 676 Part of the work described in this paper was supported by grants-in-aid from the National Institutes of Arthritis and Metabolism (Grant No. A49C2R), National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.; and the Nutrition Foundation, New York, N. Y. 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