Maximal genetic potential for adult stature: is this aim desirable?

Nutr Rev

Department of Tropical Diseases, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Published: June 1994

Current nutrition theory holds that maximization of human growth and stature is a desired anthropometric outcome. However, some evidence demonstrates that lower energy intakes may actually confer a degree of future protection against degenerative processes, particularly atherosclerosis and cancer.

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