![]() | ![]() | Protein requirements of infants and children |
KG Dewy1, G Beaton2, C Fjeld3, B Lönnerdal1 and P Reeds4 (with input from KH Brown1, MJ Heinig1, E Ziegler5, NCR Räihä6 and IEM Axelsson6)
1 Department of Nutrition and Program in
International Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA
95616-8669;
2 Department of Nutritional Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1
A8;
3 Section of Nutritional and Health-Related
Environmental Studies, International Atomic Energy Agency, PO Box 100, A1400
Vienna; 4 USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research
Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine 1100 Bates Street,
Houston, TX 77030; 5 Division of Nutrition, Department
of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242;
6 Department of Pediatrics, University of Lund, Malmo
General Hospital, S-214 01 Malmo, Sweden
Descriptors: protein, amino acids, nutrition, nitrogen, catch-up growth, diet quality