Charlotte G Neumann, Luohua Jiang, Robert E Weiss, Monika Grillenberger, Constance A Gewa, Jonathan H Siekmann, Suzanne P Murphy, Nimrod O Bwibo
The present study examines the effect of animal-source-food (ASF) intake on arm muscle area growth as part of a larger study examining causal links between ASF intake, growth rate, physical activity, cognitive function and micronutrient status in Kenyan schoolchildren. This randomised, controlled feeding intervention study was designed with three isoenergetic feeding interventions of meat, milk, and plain traditional vegetable stew (githeri), and a control group receiving no snack. A total of twelve elementary schools were randomly assigned to interventions, with three schools per group, and two cohorts of 518 and 392 schoolchildren were enrolled 1 year apart...
April 14, 2013: British Journal of Nutrition