title: The effect of the preceding day's protein intake on basal metabolic rates in young adults.
abstract: 1. Changes in basal metabolic rates (BMR), following alterations in the preceding day's dietary protein (8.6, 11.5 and 14.0% of energy) were studied in eight, young, healthy adults over 4 d. 2. Results showed a significant training effect, with BMR values 4.8% lower on day 4 of the study period. Analysis of the results by ANOVA revealed a significant interaction between subjects and diets (P less than 0.005), a significant difference between subjects but no differences in BMR due to the protein content of the diets. 3. Mean coefficient of variation (CV) for intra- and inter-individual differences in BMR from day-to-day was of the order of 4 and 9% respectively. 4. Changes in protein content of the preceding day's diet do not influence variations in BMR which appear to be random in nature with a true CV of 3.8%.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Research Centre (ICMR), Department of Physiology, St John's Medical College, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sequeira
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Shetty
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001481:Basal Metabolism; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000378:metabolism; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004044:Dietary Proteins