Associations of protein intake in early childhood with body composition, height, and insulin-like growth factor I in mid-childhood and early adolescence.

CONCLUSIONS: Early childhood protein intake may contribute to programming lean mass and IGF-I around the time of puberty in boys, but not to adiposity development. This study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02820402. PMID: 30869114 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30869114?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - March 13, 2019 Category: Nutrition Authors: Switkowski KM, Jacques PF, Must A, Fleisch A, Oken E Tags: Am J Clin Nutr Source Type: research