(n.) The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from 0¡ to 1¡. Compare the English standard unit, Foot pound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
(2) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(3) These diets were: diet C consisting of commercial Rat Chow: diet CG, the same diet diluted with 70% glucose calories, diet A, a simulated "American" diet made up of 25 widely used foods, diet AS, the same diet supplemented with small amounts of 25 vitamins and minerals.
(4) There was a positive correlation between calorie intake and IWL.
(5) The optimization criterion is defined as the net calorie gain a consumer accrues per day.
(6) Dietetic candies and cookies contained more calories than the regular ones.
(7) Multiple regression analyses were standardized for estimated total calorie intakes and used to assess the association between each fat and incidence at each cancer site.
(8) The hypochromia of protein-calorie malnutrition was not included in the study, but its importance in relation to coincident tuberculosis is noted.
(9) If total calorie intake is controlled to promote desirable body weight, crystalline fructose used with a high-carbohydrate high-fiber low-fat diet appears to be safe and acceptable for diabetic individuals.
(10) Compared weight losses during first and second bouts of a very low calorie diet (VLCD) and examined whether decreased compliance might in part explain the decrease in weight loss during the second bout.
(11) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
(12) Nor did we find that weight cycling was associated with smaller weight losses in a prospective trial in which subjects were treated by very-low-calorie diet and behavior therapy.
(13) But the truth is that too often, it’s nearly impossible to get the most basic facts about the food we buy for our families.” If the alterations are adopted, drinks companies, for example, would no longer be able to treat a 20oz bottle of soda as containing 2.5 servings of 8oz each for the purpose of labelling estimated calorie levels.
(14) Finally, the calorie-restricted group had significantly increased binding affinities of beta-receptors.
(15) Cancer patients have the highest incidence of protein-calorie malnutrition seen in hospitalized patients, with significant malnutrition occurring in more than 30% of cancer patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal procedures.
(16) Total energy intake was significantly higher relative to all other periods when subjects ingested the high-calorie meal.
(17) Alcohol added additional calories to the diets without altering any other macronutrient intake.
(18) Specific formulas of TPN for COPD patients, using lipids for calories and limiting glucose, lower the respiratory quotient.
(19) Although the rats appeared to be sensitive to the local rates of calorie flow, they did not maximize daily calories consumed per time spent feeding.
(20) The 4-week study period consisted of 1 week of stabilization followed by 3 weeks of treatment with formula diets varying in their protein and calorie content.
Calorific
Definition:
(a.) Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
Example Sentences:
(1) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(2) Production of radioactive CO2 from 14C-fructose administered intraperitoneally was studied in 18 male Wistar rats given food containing saccharose with calorific value of 0-56%.
(3) Helping to change people’s behaviour and increasing the proportion of locally grown, nutritious and less calorific foods in the diets of islanders would certainly appear to be a step in the right direction.
(4) As far as the loss is concerned, the burned area may lead to a veritable "calorific haemorrhage", arising in cases where more than 30 to 40% of the body surface is affected.
(5) Baseline measurements were similar on all three test days and the non-calorific control drink resulted in no changes in any of the measured variables.
(6) Ethyl alcohol was substituted for about 20% of the total calorific input of the animals.
(7) The calorific values of 100 g dry matter of seed material are 408.19 KCal (Kerala) and 378.60 KCal (Tamilnadu) germplasms.
(8) If ice cream was less calorific, would we consume more of it?
(9) The paper carries information on the requirement in calorific supply, basic nutritional and biologically active substances of some occupational groups of workers engaged in the construction of the railroad.
(10) Nine healthy adult subjects consumed four types of proprietary liquid diet of similar volume and calorific value but of different nutritional composition.
(11) More favourable indices of the bioelectric activity of the heart, myocardial contractility, the trends in the lipids metabolism, body weight, the blood clotting activity were registered in persons with reduced calorific value of the alimentation.
(12) The calorific value of the nutrition declines parallel with the increasing age.
(13) The feeding of rats for a space of 30 days on diets with elevated content of starch or saccharose (71 per cent of the total calorific value) was followed by an accelerated synthesis and secretion into the blood of pre-beta-lipoproteins.
(14) It was shown that a calorie-restricted diet (at 37% of the ad libitum calorific level) did not change the rate of succinate oxidation coupled with oxidative phosphorylation in homogenates, but resulted in a decrease of succinate, glutamate plus malate and beta-hydroxybutyrate oxidation and cytochrome c-oxidase activity in isolated mitochondria without any uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation or change in cytochrome content in the mitochondria.
(15) Ten patients with stable severe chronic obstructive lung disease underwent a six minute walk before and 45 minutes after taking 920 kcal of a fat rich drink, an isocalorific amount of a carbohydrate rich drink, and an equal volume of a non-calorific control liquid on three separate days, in a double blind randomised crossover study.
(16) The effect of calorifically reduced diet No 8e on the lipoproteinic composition of the blood serum in patients with metabolic-alimentary adiposity was studied.
(17) The reduction of the animals' nutrition calorific value influences the general development of growing rats and the blood protein turnover rate, the specific action on the mechanisms of the blood protein half-life regulation being of a greater importance than the energy deficiency.
(18) When some of the butter is replaced with methylcellulose for the purpose of reducing the calorific value of the cream there was observed an accelerated proteolysis by comparison with both the traditional specimens and those containing the same amount of fat as the test samples.
(19) An experiment was carried out in a reconstructed building for cell-battery rearing of young pigs, heated by two petroleum calorifers.
(20) These factors can all make our net calorific intake (the amount we absorb) substantially different from what it says on the label.