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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 48, 819-821, Copyright © 1988 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
REVIEW ARTICLES |
WA van Staveren and PC Dagnelie
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
A review of four studies examining food consumption growth and development of Dutch children fed on alternative diets is given. A literature study indicated that regarding child nutrition the three important movements in the Netherlands are the ecological movement, the anthroposophics, and the macrobiotics. A study on food consumption, height, and weight in preschool children fed these diets showed that the group of macrobiotic children were most at risk. Antropometric data collected in a cross-sectional study with 300 macrobiotic-fed children aged 0-8 y showed that the growth curves for boys and girls deviated from the Dutch standard curves after approximately 5 mo of age. There was no catch-up growth. In a selected sample of this latter group (43 children aged 4-6 y) mental development was measured by the Snijders- Oomen-Nonverbal intelligence test. The results of this test did not indicate an abnormal mental development for this age group of macrobiotic children.
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