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101Dieting — Measuring body weight on a scale Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are… …
102Conservation of energy — This article is about the law of conservation of GPE in physics. For sustainable energy resources, see Energy conservation. Prof. Walter Lewin demonstrates the conservation of mechanical energy, touching a wrecking ball with his jaw. (MIT Course… …
103Atkins Nutritional Approach — Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins , is a well known low carbohydrate diet created by Dr.Robert Atkins from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his… …
104John Ericsson — Infobox Person name = John Ericsson birth date = birth date|1803|7|31 birth place = Långbanshyttan, Värmland death date = death date and age|1889|3|8|1803|7|31 death place = New York occupation = engineer, innovator: This article is about John… …
105Glycerol — Glycerine and Glycerin redirect here. For the Bush song, see Glycerine (song). Glycerol …
106Benjamin Thompson — For other people named Benjamin Thompson, see Benjamin Thompson (disambiguation). Benjamin Thompson Born March 26, 1753 …
107Basal metabolic rate — (BMR), and the closely related resting metabolic rate (RMR), is the amount of daily energy expended by humans and animals at rest. Rest is defined as existing in a neutrally temperate environment while in the post absorptive state. In plants,… …
108Hemispatial neglect — Classification and external resources Hemispatial neglect is most frequently associated with a lesion of the right parietal lobe (in yellow, at top) ICD 9 …
109K-ration — The K ration was an individual daily combat food ration which was introduced by the United States Army during World War II. It was originally intended as an individually packaged daily ration for issue to airborne troops, tank corps, motorcycle… …
110Thermic effect of food — (also commonly known simply as thermic effect when the context is known), or TEF in shorthand, is the increment in energy expenditure above resting metabolic rate due to the cost of processing food for storage and use.1 It is one of the… …
