Student work on trends in infant and child growth – an editorial

Hermanussen, Michael; Scheffler, Christiane; Groth, Detlef; Bogin, Barry

doi:10.1127/anthranz/2019/1052

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“…Such persistence in the perception of stunting as a marker of famine is all the more surprising as the absence of an association between food and growth is known since the early 20 th century when during and shortly after World War I, German pediatricians and school doctors quite independently stated that "the child's longitudinal growth is largely independent of the extent and nature of the diet" (Schlesinger 1919). This state of information was repeated in the seminal work on human starvation published by Keys and coworkers in 2 M. Hermanussen, C. Scheffler, D. Groth, andB. Bogin 1950 (Keys et al 1950), but disappeared from citations in the literature soon thereafter.…”

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Editorial Perceiving stunting – Student research and the “Lieschen Müller effect” in nutrition science

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Editorial Perceiving stunting – Student research and the “Lieschen Müller effect” in nutrition science

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Human growth data analyses and statistics

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Students learn by repetition. Repetition is essential, but repetition needs questioning, and questioning the repertoire belongs to the essential tasks of student education. Guiding students to questioning was and is our prime motive to offer our International Student Summer Schools. The data were critically discussed among the students, in the twilight of Just So Stories, common knowledge, and prompted questioning of contemporary solutions. For these schools, the students bring their own data, carry their preliminary concepts, and in group discussions, they may have to challenge these concepts. Catch-up growth is known to affect long bone growth, but different opinions exist to what extent it also affects body proportions. Skeletal age and dental development are considered appropriate measures of maturation, but it appears that both system develop independently and are regulated by different mechanisms. Body weight distributions are assumed to be skewed, yet, historic data disproved this assumption. Many discussions focused on current ideas of global growth standards as a common yardstick for all populations world-wide, with new statistical tools being developed including network reconstruction and evaluation of the reconstructs to determine the confidence of graph prediction methods.

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Student work on trends in infant and child growth – an editorial

Cited by 2 publications

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Editorial Perceiving stunting – Student research and the “Lieschen Müller effect” in nutrition science

Editorial Perceiving stunting – Student research and the “Lieschen Müller effect” in nutrition science

Human growth data analyses and statistics

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