A negative energy balance. This means that you consume less energy than your body consumes during a certain time span.
marasmus
it means you are skinny and will turn out fat
As in not taking in enough calories? That would be Anorexia
The key tenets of the Kaplan diet is that the calorie intake and the calorie consumed should be balanced. The idea of diet deficiency does not really work.
The condition is known as "marasmus", which is a subset of malnutrition. Note that for clinical purposes, the above is often refered to as either "protein-calorie deficiency" or "protein-energy deficiency". All refer to the same condition.
Its a calorie
A nutritional Calorie is 1000 times a chemical calorie.
The difference between a calorie and a Calorie is calorie is a smaller unit than Calorie and it takes 1000 calorie's to make a Calorie. The Calorie (kilocalorie, kcal) is 1000 calories - a more useful unit and widely used.
A person with a large alcohol intake often, in essence, substitutes alcohol for other, more nutritive calorie sources. Food intake drops off considerably, and multiple vitamin deficiencies develop
a scientific name for a calorie is a kilo calorie
The Calorie.
The small calorie is equivalent to 4.2 joules. This is the scientific calorie, and it is usually replaced with units in joules. The kilogram calorie is the dietary or nutritional calorie. It is the equivalent of 4.2 kilojoules, 1000 times greater than the small calorie.