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Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 8, Issue 6 597-601, Copyright © 1989 by American College of Nutrition
CLINICAL TRIAL |
G. A. Vansant, L. F. Van Gaal and I. H. De Leeuw
University of Antwerp (UIA), Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition, Belgium.
Resting metabolic rate (RMR) and diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT), induced by 100 g glucose given orally, were measured in two groups of obese women, characterized by the abdominal or gluteal-femoral type of obesity. No difference in RMR was found between the two groups. Obese women with an abdominal fat mass distribution have a higher and more prolonged DIT in comparison with gluteal-femoral obese women. This finding may help explain why women with upper body obesity are more able to lose weight than women with lower body obesity.
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