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  • Children Growth Nutrients

    There are four stages that define Life.

    Birth,Growth,Decay and Death.

    While one can no nothing about Birth and Death, some thing can be done about Growth and Decay.

    Growth is essential part of Life and growing stronger ensures better chance of survival.

    Survival of the fittest is the hallmark of the stronger.

    Protein and energy drink Horlicks.
    Horlicks for Growth

    Image credit.

    https://growthplus.horlicks.in/

    And growth is dependent on Protein intake.

    Growth hormone (GH), also known as somatotropin (or as human growth hormone [hGH or HGH] in its human form), is apeptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important inhuman development. It is a type of mitogen which is specific only to certain kinds of cells. Growth hormone is a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide that is synthesized, stored, and secreted by somatotropic cells within the lateral wings of the anterior pituitary gland.

     

    How does this enhance Growth?

    • Increases calcium retention, and strengthens and increases the mineralization of bone
    • Increases muscle mass through sarcomere hypertrophy
    • Promotes lipolysis
    • Increases protein synthesis
    • Stimulates the growth of all internal organs excluding the brain
    • Plays a role in homeostasis
    • Reduces liver uptake of glucose
    • Promotes gluconeogenesis in the liver.
    • Contributes to the maintenance and function of pancreatic islets
    • Stimulates the immune system
    • Increases deiodination of T4 to T3.

    Deficiency of Protein result  in Growth Failure and short stature among children.

    It also causes delayed sexual maturity.

    And an unsound and subnormal growth might result in mental issue as well.

    GH( growth deficiency) deficiency  in adults may manifest as depression.

    To cure this GH deficiency GH Therapy is undertaken and its effects are yet to be proved.

    It is better to have a balanced diet  including Protein.

    In our daily Life we may not get a much protein as much as required because of our changed food habits.

     

    Natural Protein food.

    Meat

    Meat is the food that is very rich in proteins. It is also rich in fat. So it is preferred to have the meat grilled or roasted to frying them deep

    Thin cuts of: beef, ham, lamb, pork, veal

    1. Ground Meat: bison, rabbit, venison.

    Poultry products have their own richness. These foods are rich in protein and contain low saturated fats. Some of the varieties of poultry products are:

    1. Chicken
    2. Duck
    1. Goose
    2. Turkey
    3. Ground chicken and turkey
    4. Eggs ( chicken/ duck)

     

    Soya Products

    Soya products are the processed products of Soy. They are naturally blended with proteins and carbohydrates. Some of the soya products are:

    Dairy Products

    Dairy products are naturally healthy and are perfect diet parts. There are various dairy products that can be used. They are:

    1. Bean burgers
    2. Black beans
    3. Black eyed peas
    4. Chick peas
    5. Kidney beans
    6. Lentils
    7. Soy beans
    8. White beans and etc

    It is advisable to take protein supplements as a part of our diet.

    These should have adequate proteins and excess proteins should have been compensated and this supplement must be easily digestible.

    Are these Supplements safe?

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    Objective

    To determine the effect of nutritional supplementation on height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) in short and lean prepubertal children.

    Study design

    A prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of nutritional supplementation at the endocrinology department of a tertiary pediatric medical center of healthy, lean, short, prepubertal children 3-9-years-old. Anthropometry measurements were measured at 6 months.

    Results

    Two hundred participants (149 boys) entered the study and 171 (85.5%) completed the intervention period. Baseline characteristics including age, sex, height-SDS, weight-SDS, BMI-SDS, and dietary caloric and protein intakes were similar in the formula and placebo groups. ‘Good’ consumers (intake of ≥50% of the recommended dose) in the formula group significantly improved height-SDS (P < .001) and weight-SDS (P = .005) with no change in BMI-SDS compared with ‘poor’ consumers and the placebo group. In the formula-treated group a positive correlation was found between the amount of formula consumed per body weight and the gain in height-SDS (r = 0.44, P < .001) and weight-SDS (r = 0.35, P = .002); no significant correlations were found in the placebo group. No serious adverse events were reported during the study.

    Conclusions

    Nutritional intervention with the formula was found to be a feasible, effective, and safe approach for promoting the physical growth of short and lean prepubertal children.

     

    Horlicks seems to fit the bill.

    I have been watching people consuming it for as long a I remember and I recall doctors prescribing it to convalescents, including pregnant women both pre natal and post natal.

    And with added flavor children do not shy away from it.

    More information on this can be had from

    https://growthplus.horlicks.in/

    Source.

    ( The Journal of Pediatrics  )

    Reference and Citations.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_hormone

    http://www.thefitindian.com/healthy-and-natural-protein-rich-foods/

     

  • Is Eating Sugar Really That Bad for Us?

    Use of Palm Sugar negates the adverse effects of the present sugar we are using.
    Story:
    A lot of things being sold as foods have low or zero nutritional value aside from calories,” says Joel Kimmons, a nutritional epidemiologist with the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. “From a health and culinary perspective, the foods that we feed our children, our families and ourselves need to have more than calories — they should include a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, protein, phytonutrients and fiber. The problem with sugar and other refined foods is that they dilute the nutritional content of your diet overall. It becomes more difficult to meet your nutritional requirements within your calorie limits every time you add sugar.”

    Yet we add so much. Those 22 teaspoons a day — which comprises all sweeteners put into foods during processing and preparation by the manufacturer and the consumer — amount to 156 pounds per person per year, according to the USDA. This figure is “shocking,” avows Anticancer author Servan-Schreiber, railing against what he calls “the sugar boom” and noting that in 1830, the average American ate only 11 pounds of sugar a year.

    Right, but it’s everywhere. (Every four grams of sugar, as listed on food labels, equals about one teaspoonful.) And it goes by so many names. Maltodextrin, rice syrup, dextrose, galactose — to choose from two dozen. Especially ubiquitous, in a country whose government subsidizes corn production, is high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a lower-cost alternative to cane sugar that was first developed in the 1950s, entered the processed-food scene bigtime during the late 1970s, and now represents between 40 and 50 pounds of our annual 156.

    Many food activists, including Michael Pollan, point damning fingers at the fact that the industrialized world’s recent rise in obesity coincides with the mainstreaming of HFCS. For this, many blame HFCS’s high fructose content: 55 percent as compared to white sugar’s 50 percent. Several studies, such as one performed at the University of Texas in 2008, suggest that fructose metabolizes differently than glucose does and transforms into body fat much more rapidly than glucose does. Yet many, including a 2007 University of Maryland project, argue the opposite. “Based on the currently available evidence,” reads the Maryland report, “the expert panel concluded that HFCS does not appear to contribute to overweight and obesity any differently than do other energy sources.”
    http://www.alternet.org/story/145367/is_eating_sugar_really_that_bad_for_us

  • Low-carb, high-carb diet both help keep weight off-Reuters.

    Agreed.Low carbohydrates intake may reduce energy levels to perform tasks efficiently,especially in tropical countries where the heat is severe.
    Again it is not yet proven that food habits alone determine obesity.
    Story:
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Low-carb and high-carb diets work equally well for maintaining weight loss, Australian researchers report.

    People had the same success in keeping off the weight they’d lost after sharply cutting their calorie intake for 3 months if they followed a low-carb (also called high-protein) diet or a high-carbohydrate regimen for the following year, Dr. Elizabeth A. Delbridge of the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Victoria and her colleagues found.

    Some studies have suggested that high protein diets may be a more effective way to lose weight short-term than high carbohydrate diets, Delbridge and her team note in their report. But there’s less evidence on which approach might be better for helping people to keep off weight they’ve lost, and whether the two diets have different effects on heart health.

    To investigate, Delbridge and her team assigned 141 men and women who’d completed the weight-loss phase of the diet to a year on a diet in which 30 percent of their calories came from protein, or one consisting of 15 percent protein. Both groups also were instructed to keep their fat intake below 30 percent of total calories, and to focus on reducing saturated fat.

    The study participants had lost 16.5 kilograms (36.4 pounds), on average, and only regained 2 kilograms, or about four pounds, over the following year.

    While all the study participants saw their blood pressure go down as they lost weight, average blood pressure went up in the high-carbohydrate group during the weight maintenance phase, but the high-protein dieters were able to sustain their blood pressure reduction.

    While people found it easy to stick to the high protein diet, Delbridge and her team say, the low-protein dieters “struggled to consume the recommended amount of carbohydrate (55%) and to limit their protein intake to 15%.”

    But the low protein group still managed to keep their protein intake at about 22 percent of their calories, significantly below the 30 percent maintained by the high-protein dieters. And there was no significant difference between the two groups in the amount of weight they kept off.

    The findings show, the researchers conclude, that “free-living overweight and obese people” (as opposed to those studied in an inpatient clinic, for example) were able to stick with recommended diet and keep off the weight they had lost for 12 months.

    SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2009.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5AI4ZT20091119?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100