the relationship between total energy expenditure and weight gain in 18
infants of both underweight (prepregnancy weight ~5th percentile) and
overweight (prepregnancy weight >5th percentile) mothers, from birth
to 1 year of age. Total energy expenditure at 3 months of age was 20.7%
lower in infants who later became overweight. This result suggested
that lowered total energy expenditure contributed to later weight gain
in infants who became overweight. This finding was not reproduced in
two later studies in infants of lean and obese mothers, as reported by
Davies et allo and Stunkard et al.49