Response to Letter to the Editor: "Twice as High Diet-Induced Thermogenesis After Breakfast vs Dinner on High-Calorie as well as Low-Calorie Meals"

We thank Melanson and Chen for this lively discussion demonstrating their high interest in our work. However, since we explicitly explained our approach and its underlying consideration in our first response to their letter to the editor (1), we now would like to refer to this and leave it to the scientific readership of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism to decide which argumentation they prefer to follow. Notwithstanding, we are somewhat critical of the practice to abstract fragments from our reasoning or from other scientific articles to use them for own conclusions in a misleading context. For example, it is not clear to us how the statistically highly significant difference (P =...