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Resting metabolic rate in weight-cycling collegiate wrestlers compared with physically active, noncycling control subjects.

To determine the effect of multiple cycles of weight loss and regain on resting metabolic rate (RMR), we compared RMR between 12 weight-cycling colleg...
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