The phrase "a caloric surplus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about nutrition, diet, and weight management, particularly when referring to consuming more calories than the body expends.
Example: "To gain weight effectively, one must maintain a caloric surplus over time."
Alternatives: "an energy surplus" or "excess calorie intake".
Furthermore, the subjects did not compensate by decreasing food intake for the rest of the day, suggesting a net caloric surplus.
24 All diets consisted of a 40% caloric surplus on top of the ad libitum weight-maintaining diet (calculated as 1.4 × REE).
ADRA2A DraI (n=4) 6.3/6.3 kb subjects experienced a decrease (−8%) while 6.7/6.3 kb subjects (n=20) registered an increase (+10%; P=0.017) of OGTT glucose area after the 100-day caloric surplus.
The morbid consequences of the chronic caloric surplus are buffered before middle age by the partitioning of these calories as fat in the adipocyte compartment which is specifically designed to store triglycerides.
In such treated animals, inflammation is mimicked in the absence of chronic caloric surplus and tissue infiltration with inflammatory cells.
It is possible that the previously reported association (Ukkola et al, 2001) is linked to the peculiar study conditions (long-term caloric surplus).
Observation of mitochondrial function during these periods of CR and caloric surplus combined with either exercise training or no training would also be of great value.
The caloric surplus consisted of fat and sugar (high-fat-high-sugar; HFHS) or sugar only (high-sugar; HS) and was consumed together with, or between, the three main meals, thereby increasing meal size or meal frequency.
If the central nervous system (CNS) senses a caloric shortage or surplus, the brain orchestrates responses that alter food intake, nutrient partitioning and physiological functions such as hepatic glucose production, adiposity and thermogenesis.
