Correlation between family and infant food habits by scalogram analysis

Arroyo, Pedro; Arroyo, Sara E. Q. de; Gil, Sara Elena Pérez; Chávez, Adolfo

doi:10.1080/03670244.1972.9990279

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“…Guttman scaling, which is the best tool available, is hardly ever used in dietary assessment, when it is used it is very useful (20). Children are the most vulnerable not only because they are immunologically naive and have relatively high requirements for nutrients for growth, but also because they are the most likely members of the family to be given the same food day-in, day-out.…”

Section: Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The quantitation of "monotony" should form an integral part of nutritional assessment; we do not have adequate tools to do this. Guttman scaling, which is the best tool available, is hardly ever used in dietary assessment, when it is used it is very useful (20). It is monotony that characterises the diets of the isolated elderly and the disadvantaged in the developed world as well as the third world; the poor from the inner cities that eat only fish-and-chips or bread and tea for most of their young lives become stunted, just as those that live in the poor nations do.…”

Section: Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Nature of Nutritional Deficiency in Relation to Growth Failure and Poverty

Golden

1991

Acta Paediatrica

101

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Golden, M. H. N. (Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica). The nature of nutritional deficiency in relation to growth failure and poverty. Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl374: 95, 1991.A new classification of essential nutrients is proposed based on whether the major response to a deficiency is either (a) specific defects which lead to loss of particular functions and characteristic clinical signs and symptoms or (b) a primary cessation of growth. Diagnosis of deficiency of the nutrients which give rise to growth failure (nitrogen, essential amino acids, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, sulphur, zinc, magnesium) is particularly difficult because of the nature of the response and the lack of a body store. The implications of the differences in the types of deficiency are explored in relation to assessment of the likelihood that widespread deficiency exists. Poverty is particularly likely to be associated with unrecognised deficiency of these "growth" nutrients because of the monotony of the diet. This will lead to slow growth. There is probably a difference in the nutrient requirements for longitudinal and ponderal growth. Of the growth nutrients sulphur is likely to be required in much higher amounts for skeletal growth than soft tissue growth.

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Section: Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Malnutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%