The Energy Requirement for Growth
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
- Vol. 24 (2) , 110-113
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000176330
Abstract
The energy requirements for synthetic processes during growth in the male reference baby of 3,900 g at 3 weeks of age, growing along the 50th percentile have been recalculated, taking into account physiological values for P/O ratios of NAD- and FAD-linked substrates in oxidative phosphorylation and the processing and splicing of precursor RNA. An amount of 2.1% of the total energy intake is needed to cover the needs for synthetic processes associated with growth.Keywords
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