Open AccessEnergy expenditure and intake during puberty in healthy nonobese adolescents: a systematic review
Author(s) -
Hoi Lun Cheng,
Mazen Amatoury,
Katharine Steinbeck
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.115.129205
Subject(s) - energy expenditure , medicine , energy (signal processing) , psychology , developmental psychology , environmental health , endocrinology , physics , quantum mechanics
Puberty is a time of rapid growth and changing energy requirements and is a risk period for obesity. There is little high-quality evidence on the pubertal alterations of energy expenditure and intake, and this has limited our understanding of energy balance during this important life stage.
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