![]() | ![]() | Report of the working group on general principles of assessing energy requirements |
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Working Group: M Buyckx,1 JL Dupont,2 JVGA Durnin,3 A Ferro-Luzzi,4 SB Roberts,5 B Schürch6 and PS Shetty7
1Food Policy and Nutrition Division, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy; 2Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA; 3Department of Human Nutrition, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow G3 8SJ, Scotland, UK; 4Istituto Nazionale della Nutrizione, Via Ardreatina 546, 00179 Rome, Italy; 5The Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, 711 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA;6International Dietary Energy Consultative Group (IDECG), c/o Nestlé Foundation. P.O. Box 581,1001 Lausanne, Switzerland; 7Centre for Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2 Taviton Street, London WC1H OBT, UK
Descriptors: energy requirements, energy expenditure, methodology, research needs