Estimated Energy Requirements of Infants and Young Children up to 24 Months of Age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Establishing energy requirements in infants and young children is important in developing age-appropriate diet recommendations but most published guidelines for energy requirements have 1 or more limitations related to the data underlying the calculations.

Objective

To develop a comprehensive set of daily energy requirements for infants and young children aged 0-24 mo meeting the ideals of worldwide applicability to all healthy children based on the use of the doubly labeled water (DLW) technique to measure total energy expenditure (TEE), the use of recent, international growth charts, and calculation of values across a wide range of body weight.

Methods

Daily estimated energy requirements (EERs) were calculated in 1-mo increments from 0 to 24 mo for boys,

SUBMITTER: Stan SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8575726 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature