Before the intervention started, participants spent 10 weeks at the university's metabolic ward where their energy needs were calculated. (alivebynature.com)
A true tightly - controlled weight loss study means that the subjects stay in a hospital or research center metabolic ward where all their food is prepared and delivered to them, which is the ONLY way to guarantee we actually know how much they ate. (hardgainermusclebuilding.com)
To counter this, Hall and colleagues confined 19 consenting adults with obesity to a metabolic ward for a pair of 2 - week periods, over the course of which every morsel of food eaten was closely monitored and controlled. (sciencedaily.com)