The specific dynamic action of food and the satiety mechanism

Abstract

VOl. I 1 Antibiotics and copper in pig feeding 79 8. Food intake of pigs offered meal containing either 0.5 or 1.0% copper sulphate rapidly fell to a very low level and the pigs failed to gain weight. All pigs resumed satisfactory growth and food intake immediately the copper supplement was reduced to 0-1 %, or omitted from the diet.