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Thermic Effect of Food As we saw in an earlier chapter, a person’s metabolic rate tends to go up after eating a meal and then, after some time has passed, it returns to a resting metabolic rate. This phenomenon is known as the thermic effect of food, and the effect (in kJ per hour) for one individual is
Where t is the number of hours that have elapsed since eating a meal. Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Find the total thermic energy of a meal for the next six hours after a meal by
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