Risk and Benefit of Low Fat Intake in Childhood

Vobecký, J; Normand, Laurence Le

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“…2 Modi®cation of children's dietary fat intake has been especially targeted because of epidemiological data indicating that dietary fat intake early in life increases an individual's risks for obesity and other diseases in adulthood. 3 In parents' efforts to meet current guidelines 4 for dietary fat intake of children as no more than 30% of energy by age 2, some higher fat foods, such as dairy products and meats, may be limited or omitted from children's diets. Dairy products are the most nutrient dense source of calcium in children's diets.…”

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The role of dietary calcium and other nutrients in moderating body fat in preschool children

2001

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OBJECTIVE:To assess preschool children's food consumption (24 ± 60 months) and relate these ®ndings to body composition at 70 AE 2 months. DESIGN: A longitudinal study of children's dietary intakes for selected nutrients and servings of dairy products. SUBJECTS: Fifty-three white children participating in a longitudinal study (2 ± 96 months) of children's food practices and growth. MEASUREMENTS: Using in-home interviews and trained interviewers, 18 days of dietary data and measured height and weight of each child at 6 month intervals were collected. Body composition was determined by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. RESULTS: Dietary fat was 30 ± 33% of energy with saturated and monounsaturated fat intakes b 10% and polyunsaturated`10%. Adjusting for body mass index (BMI), GLM models to predict percent body fat (%BF) or grams of total fat (gTF) with mean longitudinal calcium intake (%BF: R 2 0.51, F 7.88, P`0.0001; gTF: R 2 0.51, F 9.84, P 0.0001) or total servings of dairy products (%BF: R 2 0.47, F 6.93, P`0.0001; gTF: R 2 0.47, F 8.31, P`0.0001) as independent variables gave signi®cant results. Higher mean longitudinal calcium (mgaday) intakes and more servingsaday of dairy products were associated with lower body fat. Males had signi®cantly less body fat (P 0.01) than females. CONCLUSIONS: Higher longitudinal intakes of calcium, monounsaturated fat, and servings of dairy products were associated with lower body fat.

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The role of dietary calcium and other nutrients in moderating body fat in preschool children

2001

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“…A dieta, ainda que haja alguma controvérsia (PURATH et al, 1995), tem assumido um papel primordial na medida em que o alto teor de colesterol, o baixo consumo de fibra alimentar, a alta proporção de calorias lipídicas e ácidos graxos saturados têm sido associados com o aumento da colesterolemia (VOBECKY et al, 1995;WAJID ALI et al, 1995). Por outro lado, a redução da colesterolemia, mesmo que pequena, parece ser eficiente na diminuição dos índices de mortalidade por doenças cardiovasculares (McCABE, 1993).…”

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Perfil lipídico de dietas e sua relação com os níveis de colesterolemia em escolares de uma escola pública de Campinas, São Paulo, (Brasil)

Moura¹,

Sonati²

1998

Rev. Nutr.

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(1) Auxílio Parcial do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/CNPq na forma de bolsas de apoio técnico, iniciação científica, aperfeiçoamento e pesquisa. LIPID PROFILE OF DIETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN LIPID PROFILE OF DIETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN LIPID PROFILE OF DIETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN LIPID PROFILE OF DIETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN LIPID PROFILE OF DIETS AND THE CORRELATION WITH SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL) SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL) SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL) SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL) SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL IN CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO (BRAZIL)

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“…However, a recent multicenter study evaluating dietary treatment of hypercholesterolemia in a closely supervised group of 663 children aged 8 ± 10 y randomly assigned to an intervention group (mean dietary fat intake 28.6% of energy) and a control group (33%) did not ®nd a correlation of percentage of dietary energy intake as fat to weight, height, body mass index and skinfold thicknesses, even though the intake of some nutrients was reduced in the intervention group (Obarzanek et al, 1997). Some studies have also reported unsatisfactory intakes of some vitamins and micronutrients associated with low-fat diets in children (Nicklas et al, 1992;Vobecky et al, 1995).…”

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Response to and range of acceptable fat intakes in infants and children

Koletzko

1999

Eur J Clin Nutr

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The maximum and minimum fat intakes that are physiologically tolerable by healthy infants and young children are not well de®ned. The maximum tolerable fat intake appears to be limited by the minimum requirements of protein, carbohydrates and micronutrients. It is unresolved whether or not there is a minimum metabolic requirement of dietary fat, beyond the requirements of essential fatty acids and lipid soluble vitamins and the effects on energy density and an adequate total energy intake. The ®rst postnatal months of the human infant are characterized by a rapid weight gain and extensive fat deposition. Body fat deposition equals 25% of the total energy intake during the ®rst 2 and 16% during the third and fourth months, respectively. The provision of dietary lipids in amounts at least matching the needs for tissue storage and fat oxidation appears to be of advantage for energy balance and physiological growth. Some reports have associated low fat diets with less than 30% of energy as fat with adverse effects on child growth beyond infancy, but it remains unresolved whether these effects were caused by an associated effect on dietary energy density and total intake of energy and other nutrients. Closely supervised, healthy infants from an af¯uent population grew normally with a diet providing about 30% of the energy as fat from the seventh month of life onwards, but it is not known to what extent adaptive mechanisms such as a reduction of physical activity may have been required. It is not known whether infants and young children stressed by frequent occurrence of diarrhea and infections may adapt to a 30% fat diet as well or not. No evidence is available for a health bene®t of a low total fat intake in infancy. In view of the limited available information, further research is required to de®ne optimal fat intakes in early childhood since this question is of major importance for child health.

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Risk and Benefit of Low Fat Intake in Childhood

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

The role of dietary calcium and other nutrients in moderating body fat in preschool children

The role of dietary calcium and other nutrients in moderating body fat in preschool children

Perfil lipídico de dietas e sua relação com os níveis de colesterolemia em escolares de uma escola pública de Campinas, São Paulo, (Brasil)

Response to and range of acceptable fat intakes in infants and children

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