Energy intake variability in free-living young children

It has been suggested that young children regulate their daily energy intake very closely with highly stable day-to-day total energy intake. This hypothesis was developed on the basis of an experimental study of 15 children aged 26 to 62 months, which reported a within-subject coefficient of variati...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archives of disease in childhood 2008-11, Vol.93 (11), p.971-973
Hauptverfasser: Nielsen, S B, Montgomery, C, Kelly, L A, Jackson, D M, Reilly, J J
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Zusammenfassung:It has been suggested that young children regulate their daily energy intake very closely with highly stable day-to-day total energy intake. This hypothesis was developed on the basis of an experimental study of 15 children aged 26 to 62 months, which reported a within-subject coefficient of variation (CV) in daily energy intake of 10.4%. We tested the hypothesis that free-living energy intakes were highly stable on a day-to-day basis in a sample of free-living young children from Glasgow, Scotland. In 101 children (47 boys) aged 2.6–6.8 years, energy intake was measured using multiple-pass 24-h recalls. Within-subject CV was 19.2%, which was significantly higher than the 10.4% reported by previously Birch and colleagues (p
ISSN:0003-9888
1468-2044
DOI:10.1136/adc.2007.136119