doi:10.1152/physrev.00019.2005.
I. Introduction
II. Changes in the Regulation of Energy Intake
A. Comparisons of young and elderly adults
B. Reduced hunger and increased satiation as mediators of impaired defense
against energy imbalance
C. Glucose and insulin as potential mediators of impaired regulation of food intake
D. Other hormonal mediators of impaired regulation of food intake
E. Changes in taste and smell as potential contributors to impaired regulation of food intake
F. Reduced dietary variety as a mediator of impaired regulation of food intake
G. Medical and social factors
III. Changes in Energy Expenditure With Aging
A. Basal metabolic rate
B. The thermic effect of feeding
C. Total energy expenditure and physical activity level
D. Energy expenditure responsiveness to energy imbalance
IV. Changes in Fuel Utilization With Aging
V. Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions
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With Aging. Physiol Rev 86: 651 667, 2006; doi:10.1152/physrev.00019.2005.Changes in energy regulation occur
during normal aging and contribute to the common phenomenon of weight and fat losses late in life. This review
synthesizes data on aging-related changes in energy intake and energy expenditure and on the regulation of energy
intake and expenditure. The ability of older adults to accurately regulate energy intake is impaired, with a number
of possible explanations including delayed rate of absorption of macronutrients secondary to reductions in taste and
smell acuity and numerous hormonal and metabolic mediators of energy regulation that change with aging. There
are also changes in patterns of dietary intake and a reduction in the variety of foods consumed in old age that are
thought to further reduce energy intake. Additionally, all components of energy expenditure decrease with aging, in
particular energy expenditure for physical activity and basal metabolic rate, and the ability of energy expenditure to
increase or decrease to attenuate energy imbalance during overeating or undereating also decreases. Combined,
these changes result in an increased susceptibility to energy imbalance (both positive and negative) in old age that
is associated with deteriorations in health. Practical interventions for prevention of weight and fat fluctuations in old
age are anticipated here based on emerging knowledge of the role of such factors as dietary variety, taste, and
palatability in late-life energy regulation.
I. INTRODUCTION
The human life cycle has undergone dramatic
changes in the last century. At the beginning of the 20th
century, average life expectancy at birth in the United
States for males and females combined was a mere 50
years. Now, 100 years later, average life expectancy is 77
years and is anticipated to increase to an average of 85
years by the year 2125. This change is due primarily to
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FIG. 1. Body weight change in two groups of subjects during a 21-day period of underfeeding or overfeeding and subsequent ad libitum eating.
Values are means SE for young and older men (black bars are young men, open bars are older men). Mean values were significantly different
between young and older men at the point of lowest/highest weight (P 0.05). [From Roberts et al. (132).]
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perimental artifact and implies that aging is indeed associated with an impaired ability to accurately regulate
energy balance through adjustments in energy intake.
However, an unresolved question raised by that study was
whether the weight changes persisted over an extended
period of time, because the follow-up period was relatively short (7 wk). In a separate study by the same
group (107), body weight change following experimental
underfeeding was studied for a 6-mo period. As in the first
study, young normal-weight subjects regained essentially
all the weight lost during underfeeding, but elderly subjects only gained back 20% of the weight they lost on
average. On a shorter time scale, consistent results have
also been reported by two other groups. Rolls et al. (139)
gave yogurt preloads to young and older men and measured compensation for the additional energy at the subsequent meal. They observed that young men precisely
compensated for the preload with the result that net food
intake was relatively unaffected, whereas older men did
not. Morley (108) also gave preloads to young and older
subjects and found less complete compensation in the
older subjects than the young ones.
These four studies, together with several animal studies reporting impaired regulation of food intake in old age
(11, 27, 56, 65, 70, 76, 108, 187, 194, 196), suggest markedly
impaired regulation of energy intake in late life. Moreover,
when interpreting the combined results from these investigations, it is important to recognize that, as with most
studies of human aging physiology, the subjects were
healthy older men and women who would be predicted to
be less likely to exhibit age-related decrements in function than the more typical elderly individual with multiple
health problems. Thus, although the results observed here
should not be extrapolated beyond the types of diets and
experimental conditions used in the study, they may nevertheless underestimate the true extent of energy dysregulation in more typical elderly individuals with multiple chronic diseases.
B. Reduced Hunger and Increased Satiation
as Mediators of Impaired Defense
Against Energy Imbalance
The causes of apparent dysregulation of food intake
in old age are not well understood, in large part because
the mechanisms underlying successful energy regulation
at any age are not fully understood. In young adults, it is
generally accepted that multiple overlapping mechanisms
exist to regulate energy balance within fairly narrow limits, with hunger and satiety being monitored both peripherally and centrally by several systems. These mechanisms have not proven to be resistant to environmental
pressures to overeat, as seen in secular trends of weight
gain worldwide during the past 30 years (46). However,
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Glycemic index is a property of food which is defined as the area
under the glucose curve after consumption of the food in an amount
containing 50 g carbohydrate, divided by the area under the plasma
glucose concentration curve versus time over 2 h after consumption of
white bread or glucose (these are two different standards) also containing 50 g carbohydrate.
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in young adults (23, 103, 136), but in elderly adults circulating leptin may be lower than expected for body fat
levels (8, 136). Furthermore (8, 88, 103, 136, 171, 195),
central leptin administration has relatively little effect on
food intake and thermogenesis in old, obese rats compared with substantial effects in young, lean ones (for
example, 42% reduction in food intake following central
leptin administration) (150) due to decreased leptin responsiveness in old age (149, 150, 167).
The fact that a variety of peripheral satiety signals,
including CCK, leptin, blood glucose, and the sympathetic
nervous system (70), and perhaps ghrelin (52) all appear
to be imperfectly detected in old age may be related to
impairments in one or more central mechanisms responsible for coordination of energy regulation signals. One
important potential candidate is NPY, one of the most
abundant peptides in the brain that is an integrator of
metabolic endocrine and behavioral systems (73, 74) and
acts through various hypothalamic nuclei to stimulate
feeding behavior and affect release of hormones that
modulate energy metabolism such as insulin (73, 74). The
finding of high levels of NPY in both plasma and cerebrospinal fluid of elderly anorectics provides some circumstantial evidence that NPY expression does not relate to
the anorexia of aging, since high NPY is predicted to
increase feeding in the young (87). However, the fastinginduced increases in both food intake and NPY gene
expression normally seen in young rats are consistently
attenuated in aging rats (55, 56, 76, 194), indicating that
responsiveness to NPY is impaired in old age. Consistent
with this suggestion, the feeding and drinking responses
to NPY injection in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus are markedly attenuated in aged rats (7, 118), with
only one-quarter to one-third of the response seen in
younger animals (7).
E. Changes in Taste and Smell as Potential
Contributors to Impaired Regulation
of Food Intake
There are well-documented age-associated declines
in taste and smell sensitivity (36, 42, 151155, 191) that
may play a more important role in the energy dysregulation of old age than currently recognized. In particular,
most studies (36, 42, 151156, 191) suggest that detection
and recognition thresholds for salt and other specific
tastes increase with age, in part because of the use of
medications that impact taste (see below) but also because of a loss of functional taste bud number and structure (1) and impaired olfaction.
Intact senses of taste and smell appear to be necessary for the cephalic phase of digestion, which includes
the initial increases in salivary, gastric, pancreatic, and
intestinal secretions that initiate digestion (148, 153). The
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during a period of mental and physical rest in a thermoneutral environment and reflects energy use of the body
for such basic functions as maintenance of electrochemical gradients, transporting of molecules around the body,
and biosynthetic processes. Frequently, a resting energy
expenditure is measured in preference to a BMR. Resting
energy expenditure is quantitatively similar to the BMR,
but it is not subject to all the exacting requirements of a
BMR. In this review, measurements of resting energy
expenditure are taken to be equivalent to BMR.
Typically, BMR is the largest component of energy
expenditure and comprises 50 70% of total expenditure
in most adults. A decline in BMR with aging is well
recognized (68, 119) and is implicit in standard equations
for predicting BMR in healthy men and women of different ages (40). A longitudinal study by Keys et al. (68)
documented a decline in BMR with age of 12% per decade; based on this assessment, a reduction in BMR of
400 kJ/day can be predicted between 20 and 70 years
of age.
The question of whether the decline in BMR with
aging can be accounted for by concomitant alterations in
body composition, or whether there is also a decline in
BMR per unit of tissue, has been studied by several research groups. Many (48, 69, 116, 120, 128, 188) though
not all (26, 144, 183) cross-sectional studies reported that
BMR is lower in old age even after adjustment for lower
fat-free mass in older individuals, with adjusted BMR
values being 5% lower for elderly adults than for young
adults. However, loss of fat-free mass is not the only body
composition change that occurs during the adult human
life cycle, and in particular, there is usually a substantial
increase in fat mass from young adulthood to middle age
that often quantitatively exceeds the concomitant loss of
fat-free mass (resulting in net weight gain). Two investigations also analyzed changes in BMR with aging in relation to individual variability in both fat-free mass and fat
mass (27, 186). In both of these studies, there was a
significantly lower BMR in elderly adults compared with
young ones. Because adipose tissue is metabolically active, albeit less metabolically active than muscle and
other components of fat-free mass (40), failure to account
for the increase in fat mass through middle age in analyses of BMR could theoretically underestimate BMR adjusted for fat-free mass and help explain the conflicting
results of the earlier studies.
More recently, three additional studies have further
examined BMR in relation to compartmentalized body
composition. Roubenoff et al. (144) examined BMR in
relation to total body potassium (an indicator of metabolically active tissue independent of such compartments as
extracellular water) and found no effect of age on the
relationship between total body potassium and BMR.
Consistent with this suggestion, Kutsuzawa et al. (71)
found no effect of age on muscle energy metabolism of
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the forearm assessed by 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and Bosy-Westphal et al. (13) found no effect of
age on BMR when organ sizes within the free-fat mass
(assessed by magnetic resonance imaging) were taken
into account (different organs are known to have tissuespecific rates of energy expenditure). These reports, suggesting no effect of age on BMR beyond that due to the
loss of different body tissues is taken into account, would
appear to conflict with the further finding of Willis et al.
(193) that there is a significant age-associated decline in
cerebral glucose metabolism (indicating energy expenditure since glucose is the primary metabolic fuel of the
brain). However, Willis et al. (193) also quantified the
change in cerebral glucose metabolism with age, and the
estimated 5 g/day decrease in glucose use between 20 and
70 years for an adult with normal brain size would result
in an estimated decrease in BMR of only 125 kJ/day,
which is 2% BMR for most adults and would not be
detected significantly except in extremely large studies.
Taken together, these observations indicate that BMR is
indeed lower in the elderly compared with young adults
even after taking body composition changes associated
with aging into account, but the difference is so small
(2% based on changes in brain glucose metabolism) that
it can be considered insignificant.
B. The Thermic Effect of Feeding
The thermic effect of feeding, previously know as
specific dynamic action, is the increase in energy expenditure above basal that is associated with consuming,
digesting, and assimilating food. Some of the increase in
energy expenditure can be directly attributed to the metabolic costs of digestion, resynthesis of macronutrient
polymers, and related processes (termed obligatory thermogenesis), while the other component of the increase
appears to be due to concomitant activation of the sympathetic nervous system (termed facultative thermogenesis) (28).
The thermic effect of feeding is equivalent to 8 15%
of ingested metabolizable energy. Some studies report a
decrease in the thermic effect of feeding in old age (51,
106, 161, 164, 180, 185), while other studies report no
change (27, 49, 96, 121, 182, 188). To avoid the potential
concern that meal size might influence differences in TEF
between young and older individuals, Melanson et al. (96)
measured the thermic effect of feeding at three levels of
energy intake. There was no significant difference in the
thermic effect of feeding between the age groups, and
mean postprandial values for energy expenditure above
initial fasting values were actually slightly higher in the
older group than the young group. Although no conclusive
explanation can currently be given for the different results between some of the studies, a suggested explana-
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The concept that energy expenditure plays an important role in the regulation of energy balance has been the
subject of numerous investigations since the beginning of
the 20th century (113), and it is now widely recognized
that energy expenditure increases or decreases only to a
limited extent to match energy intake to minimize
changes in energy balance resulting from overeating or
undereating (14, 59, 137).
Several studies published over the last decade have
suggested there may be important changes in energy expenditure responsiveness to changes in energy balance
with aging. Roberts and colleagues (107, 131, 146) conducted a series of overfeeding and underfeeding studies
to examine the magnitude of changes in total energy
expenditure and components of energy expenditure to
energy imbalance in young (age 20 30 years) and elderly
(age 60 80 years) men. In a combined analysis of the first
overfeeding and underfeeding studies, a significantly attenuated resting energy expenditure response to changes
in energy balance was observed in the elderly men (Fig.
4). Thus, during positive energy balance, the increase in
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FIG. 5. Individual values for fat oxidation (corrected for postprandial energy expenditure) in relation to meal size and study duration in 16
young and older women. There was a significant age group by meal size
interaction (P 0.02), and the older women had significantly lower
values for fat oxidation after consumption of the 4,148-kJ meal than did
the young women (P 0.02). [From Melanson et al. (97).]
decrease in fat oxidation after taking fat mass into account (which is positively correlated with fasting fat oxidation in younger subjects; see Ref. 162).
The fact that the apparent impairments in fat oxidation in old age are associated with reduced muscle mass
and fitness suggest that alterations in fuel availability with
age may underlie differences in fat oxidation, and therefore that exercise may help reverse or attenuate the ageassociated effects through alterations in insulin sensitivity. Consistent with this view, several previous studies,
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We thank all the members of the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research
Center on Aging at Tufts University for their invaluable contributions to the studies described in this review, in particular,
Paul Fuss, Gaston Bathalon, Nicholas Hays, Kathleen Melanson,
Megan McCrory, and Edward Saltzman. We also gratefully acknowledge the enduring inspiration of our late colleague and
friend Vernon R. Young.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence:
S. B. Roberts, Energy Metabolism Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, 711 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111 (e-mail: susan.roberts@tufts.edu).
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