Measuring metabolism

Though unassuming in that they look like home offices with treadmills, these calorimeter labs measure precisely how much energy its human inhabitant is burning, and what kind of energy. The rooms, housed at the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes in Orlando, are among only a dozen or so in the United States.

( George Skene / February 1, 2013 )

Though unassuming in that they look like home offices with treadmills, these calorimeter labs measure precisely how much energy its human inhabitant is burning, and what kind of energy. The rooms, housed at the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes in Orlando, are among only a dozen or so in the United States.

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