Text: For more information on metabolism and set point:

        Web sites

        • Calculate your basal metabolism and caloric rates and get answers about commercial metabolism products at www.room42.com.

        • Body Mass Index shows target body fat for different weights, and “Nutrition 20th Century Timeline” marks the American diet through the last century at www.wadsworth.com/nutrition.

        • “Modifiers of Metabolism — Overnutrition, Undernutrition and Disease States” by Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer at www.healthy.net.

        • Documented studies on metabolism at www.vitamins-etc.com.

        • Press release on metabolism and link to other nutrition information by U.S.D.A. at www.ars.usda.gov.

        Books

        • The Balance: Your Personal Prescription for Supermetabolism by Oz Garcia (Harper Collins Publishers; $23).

        • Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How to Lose Weight by Changing the Way You Breathe by Pam Grout (Fireside Press; $11).

        • The Ultimate Fit or Fat by Covert Bailey (Houghton Mifflin Company; $11).

        • Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism by James L. Groff, et al. (Wadsworth Publishing Company; $98.95).

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