NUTRITION STUDIES ON CHILDREN LIVING AT HOME
- 1 October 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in American Journal of Diseases of Children
- Vol. 70 (4), 214-219
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1945.02020220015003
Abstract
This paper is the first of a series dealing with the dietary intakes and eating habits of a group of well children living at home under conditions which are representative of a middle class population in the Boston area. The material presented has been collected over a period of fifteen years as a part of the research program on growth and development of the well child conducted by the Department of Maternal and Child Health of the Harvard School of Public Health. Three hundred and twenty-four children have been enrolled, and approximately 160 of these are still being studied. A detailed description of the studies under this program has been given in another publication.1 This paper deals with the average calory intakes of these children from 1 through 10 years of age. Nutritional histories were taken from the mothers by trained nutritionists in conjunction with routine clinic examinations ofKeywords
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- Surveys of the Nutrition of Populations. Description of the Population, General Methods and Procedures, and the Findings in Respect to the Energy Principle (Calories) in a Rural Population in Middle Tennessee (Part 2)American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1943