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ArticleInternational journal of circumpolar health2023

Performance nutrition for cold-weather military operations.

Lee M Margolis, Stefan M Pasiakos

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Article in International journal of circumpolar health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07489690 (Energy Dense Fueling for Cold-Weather Operations), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07489690 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Energy Dense Fueling for Cold-Weather Operations

TypeinterventionalSponsorUnited States Army Research Institute of Environmental MedicineRan2026 to 2026Enrolled8ConditionsCold ExposureArmsHigh Fat, High Carbohydrate
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lee M MargolisMilitary Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, USA.
Stefan M PasiakosMilitary Performance Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, USA.
U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

.High daily energy expenditure without compensatory increases in energy intake results in severe energy deficits during cold-weather military operations. The severity of energy deficits has been proportionally linked to declines in body mass, negative protein balance, suppression of androgen hormones, increases in systemic inflammation and degraded physical performance. Food availability does not appear to be the predominant factor causing energy deficits; providing additional rations or supplement snack bars does not reduce the severity of the energy deficits. Nutrition interventions that allow greater energy intake could be effective for reducing energy deficits during cold-weather military operations. One potential intervention is to increase energy density (i.e. energy per unit mass of food) by increasing dietary fat. Our laboratory recently reported that self-selected higher energy intakes and reductions in energy deficits were primarily driven by fat intake (

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Military PersonnelCold TemperatureDietary SupplementsEnergy IntakeHumansNutritional StatusEnergy balanceenergy expendituremilitaryphysical performanceprotein balance

Identifiers

PMID36934427
PMCPMC10026745
OpenAlexW4327844821

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