If People Are Kept on Diets Containing About 25% Fewer

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Essay

If people are kept on diets containing about 25% fewer calories than would be required to maintain their initial body weight,what happens?

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Definitions:

Graphical Tool

A visual representation used to analyze, display, or communicate information or data graphically.

Stem-and-Leaf Display

A stem-and-leaf display is a method of displaying quantitative data to show its shape and distribution by dividing each data point into a stem (the leading digit(s)) and a leaf (the last digit).

Stem

The leading digit(s) in stem-and-leaf plots, a form of data display that shows data values and their frequency of occurrence.

Leaf

In a graphical data representation, a leaf is the end part of a stem in a stem-and-leaf plot, which displays numerical data.