RT Journal
T1 DEfective nutrition of children in war-stricken europe
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD April 5
VO 72
IS 14
SP 1002
OP 1003
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610140032016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610140032016
AB We have taken occasion at various times to point out some of the important practical consequences of the more recently acquired information regarding the food requirements of the human body in childhood. Contrary to the older assumptions, whereby the needs of the growing child for food fuel were expressed in proportionate fractions of the energy requirement of the adult, the modern nutrition studies, in this country in particular, have demonstrated the unexpectedly higher basal metabolism of childhood. If it is true, as Lusk 1 has maintained, that many cases of reported chronic malnutrition of infants are in reality due to persistent undernutrition, carried out in ignorance of the proper amount of food required by the child, a comparable ignorance applies to the dietary of later childhood years. It cannot be reiterated too often, until the knowledge has been firmly established where it is most needed, that the basal requirement of