Sentences with phrase «thermal effect of food»

The thermal effect of food is highest in protein, where your metabolism will increase by 30 %, and much lower in fat and carbs where it'll only increase by 4 % and 6 % respectively [2].

Protein also has a very high «TEF» — thermal effect of food.

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Thermal Effect of Feeding TEF represents the increase in metabolic rate when food is ingested.

For equivalent food supply and fecundity rates, this variability in generation time will obviously have a very strong effect on the number of adult beetles emerging per unit time to attack new host trees (although the thermal requirements for the full developmental cycle can mitigate this somewhat).