Notes on the new international estimates of energy requirements

In the present paper I shall try to discuss the ideas and principles underlying the estimates of human energy requirements proposed by a consultative group set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization and United Nations University, that met in Rome in October 1981 (FAO/WHO/UNU, 1985). I shall only consider adults, since Whitehead (1986) discusses the requirements of infants and young children.

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