Health education and the nutrition class, a report of the Bureau of educational experiments; descriptive and educational sections . by present standardsdoes not materially affect the normal growth of achild in weight; a percentage underweight of 10 ormore involves less absolute gain and less than theexpected normal gain.* Further illustration of this point can be found inChart 6. Individual curves of growth in weight byweekly weighings have been plotted for the fivechildren in the Nutrition Group who were the leastunderweight and for the five most in the first group were all
Health education and the nutrition class, a report of the Bureau of educational experiments; descriptive and educational sections . by present standardsdoes not materially affect the normal growth of achild in weight; a percentage underweight of 10 ormore involves less absolute gain and less than theexpected normal gain.* Further illustration of this point can be found inChart 6. Individual curves of growth in weight byweekly weighings have been plotted for the fivechildren in the Nutrition Group who were the leastunderweight and for the five most in the first group were all 8%, the secondranged from 15-20% underweight. Compositecurves from the averages have also been plotted wteach of these divisions. The 8% underweights group themselves closelytogether and follow the same trend. The initialmeasures of the individual curves lie between 44 and • Benedict, F. G., Miles, W. R., Roth, P., and Smith, H. M. Pub-lication No. 280, Carnegie Institution of Washington.—The percent-age underweight of fasting men related to the lowering of basalmetabolism is noted. GROWTH IN WEIGHT AND HEIGHT 137 TOUNM5t. Chabt 6Sbptembeb Ntjtmtion Gkoup 138 HEALTH EDUCATION 48 lbs., the final measures between and 53 lbs.,the ranges for both being 4 and lbs, average gain shown in the composite curve lbs. in comparison with lbs., the expected gainaccording to tables of Wood.* The gain of those most underweight is not soconsistent; this would be expected from the widerrange of underweightness. This group ranges ininitial measurement from to lbs., the varia-tion being lbs.; in final measurement it rangesfrom to lbs., the variation being average gain shown in the composite curve lbs., or lbs. less than the least underweightdivision. Three individual curves are closely allied, varia-tions being limited to approximately 1 lb. Of theremaining curves, one is for an individual 17%underweight, whose cu
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