The Variation and the Statistical Constants of Basal Metabolism in Men

Physiologists now generally accept the so called basal metabolism of the individual as a standard in all comparisons involving the consideration of energy transformation.Furthermore, the technical conditions under which measurement.s of the basal metabolism shall be made are now generally agreed upon.The opinion has even been widely maintained that heat production per square meter of body surface area is a constant.A detailed review and discussion of the literature and the results of a biometric analysis of a series of basal metabolism data for 136 men and 103 women have been given elsewhere.1The results of this analysis show the following coefficients of variation for the averages2 of the daily basal metabolism constants for the individual subjects. MelI.Women.