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1 Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College for Women, Coimbatore-641011, IN
Source
The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol 12, No 9 (1975), Pagination: 279-284
Abstract
Energy is a basic nutritional requirement of man, who is a homeotherm and endotherm, with ability to produce and regulate heat. Heat production is a byproduct of his dynamic biochemical activity characterised by several chemical changes, mostly oxidations, through which energy from food is liberated and converted into mechanical work and heat.