Dairy products and physical stature: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials

Beer, Hans de

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2011.08.003

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“…The Dutch superiority in height has been attributed to various environmental factors, including nutrition, particularly the heavy consumption of dairy products [6,8], and low levels of social inequality, with the provision of high-quality, universal healthcare [1]. By contrast, the United States has experienced growing levels of social inequality over the last 150 years, despite equivalent (if not higher) levels of overall wealth compared with The Netherlands [2,9,10], and these may be responsible for the much smaller increase in average height.…”

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Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

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The Dutch are the tallest people on earth. Over the last 200 years, they have grown 20 cm in height: a rapid rate of increase that points to environmental causes. This secular trend in height is echoed across all Western populations, but came to an end, or at least levelled off, much earlier than in The Netherlands. One possibility, then, is that natural selection acted congruently with these environmentally induced changes to further promote tall stature among the people of the lowlands. Using data from the LifeLines study, which follows a large sample of the population of the north of The Netherlands (n ¼ 94 516), we examined how height was related to measures of reproductive success (as a proxy for fitness). Across three decades , height was consistently related to reproductive output (number of children born and number of surviving children), favouring taller men and average height women. This was despite a later age at first birth for taller individuals. Furthermore, even in this low-mortality population, taller women experienced higher child survival, which contributed positively to their increased reproductive success. Thus, natural selection in addition to good environmental conditions may help explain why the Dutch are so tall.

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“…This is in remarkable contrast to the mid-18th century, when the height of Dutch men was well below average for other European populations and 5-8 cm shorter than men in the United States (168). Dutch men grew by ;20 cm over the past 150 y (168), a stature attributed in part to the heavy consumption of dairy products (170,171).…”

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Perspective: The Potential Role of Essential Amino Acids and the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1) Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Child Stunting

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Advances in Nutrition

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Stunting is the best summary measure of chronic malnutrition in children. Approximately one-quarter of children under age 5 worldwide are stunted. Lipid-based or micronutrient supplementation has little to no impact in reducing stunting, which suggests that other critical dietary nutrients are missing. A dietary pattern of poor-quality protein is associated with stunting. Stunted children have significantly lower circulating essential amino acids than do nonstunted children. Inadequate dietary intakes of essential amino acids could adversely affect growth, because amino acids are required for synthesis of proteins. The master growth regulation pathway, the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway, is exquisitely sensitive to amino acid availability. mTORC1 integrates cues such as nutrients, growth factors, oxygen, and energy to regulate growth of bone, skeletal muscle, nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, hematopoietic cells, immune effector cells, organ size, and whole-body energy balance. mTORC1 represses protein and lipid synthesis and cell and organismal growth when amino acids are deficient. Over the past 4 decades, the main paradigm for child nutrition in developing countries has been micronutrient malnutrition, with relatively less attention paid to protein. In this Perspective, we present the view that essential amino acids and the mTORC1 pathway play a key role in child growth. The current assumption that total dietary protein intake is adequate for growth among most children in developing countries needs reevaluation. Adv Nutr 2016;7:853-65.

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“…In the United Arab Emirates, Kerdaki et al reported a low prevalence of daily consumption of milk yet could not correlate this with overweight among female schoolchildren (23). On the other hand in Portugal, Abreu et al found an inverse association between milk intake and both BMI and percentage body fat in adolescent girls (24), but, elsewhere, there is only moderate quality evidence that dairy products supplementation stimulates linear growth (25). Our findings are consistent with Lin et al in Hong Kong who reported a lack of association between milk or other dairy products consumption and BMI and suggested that the negative association observed in Western populations may be due to confounding by socioeconomic status (26).…”

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Pattern of beverage intake and milk and dairy products sufficiency among high-school students in Kuwait

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East Mediterr Health J

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High consumption of soft drinks has been associated with lower intakes of milk and calcium-rich foods and higher body mass index (BMI). This study aimed to explore the pattern of beverage intake among Kuwaiti high-school students. A questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning beverages and milk and dairy products intake was completed by 190 Kuwaiti students aged 16-18 years and BMI was calculated for 181 of them. Intake of sweetened carbonated beverages and to a lesser extent packaged fruit juices affected the sufficiency of milk and dairy products intake among the sample of high-school students in Kuwait. Although BMI was not related to milk and dairy insufficiency, more of the overweight and obese students displayed incorrect practices. Nutritional education of highschool students on the importance of milk and dairy products as well as the hazards of excess sweetened carbonated beverages and packaged juice is recommended to prevent the obesity epidemic prevailing in Kuwait.

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Dairy products and physical stature: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials

Cited by 161 publications

References 37 publications

Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

Perspective: The Potential Role of Essential Amino Acids and the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1) Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Child Stunting

Pattern of beverage intake and milk and dairy products sufficiency among high-school students in Kuwait

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