Growth retardation in a New Guinea boarding school and its response to supplementary feeding.
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Children attending a boarding school in the New Guinea highlands, and receiving a protein-deficient diet of sweet potato and taro showed a progressive retardation of growth which was related to the number of years at school, when compared with village children.Abstract:
1. Children attending a boarding school in the New Guinea highlands, and receiving a protein-deficient diet of sweet potato and taro showed, when compared with village children, a progressive retardation of growth which was related to the number of years at school.2. Feeding of supplementary protein resulted in a dramatic acceleration of growth in both height and weight, whereas the feeding of extra calories produced an increase in only weight and skinfold thickness.3. This response to protein feeding appears to be greater than previously reported in the literature.read more
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Feeding frequency: a factor in dietary protein utilization.
TL;DR: There is a limit to the magnitude of the load of dietary protein that an organism can utilize per unit of time period for protein synthetic purposes and when the limit is exceeded, “excess” nitrogen is excreted in the urine as enzymatic reactions adapt themselves to disposing of the nonutilized nitrogen.
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Feeding frequency and protein metabolism.
TL;DR: The results of both types of experiments suggest that the intermediary metabolism of protein is related to feeding frequency (or load of absorbed nutrients to be metabolized per unit time).