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Article: Knowing Energy Density Of Foods Can Help.(avoid obesity)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- April 23, 2001
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2001 APR 23 - (NewsRx Network) -- by Susan Hasty, staff medical writer - When a researcher in The Netherlands looked at the energy density of foods and drinks together with energy intake, it didn't take her long to observe that obese women ate more high energy density foods than their more slender counterparts.
But she also found that when the energy density was manipulated, subjects free to eat what they wanted could adjust their energy intake to a decrease in energy density, but not an increased energy density, while for subjects whose diets were restricted, the opposite was true. Furthermore, when subjects were knowledgeable about the energy density in their ...