HNFE 2014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Short-Chain Fatty Acid, Breast Milk, Infant Formula
16 Jul 2016
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Recent increase in recommendation and recent change from ai to rda for the rest of us, but the vitamin d recommendation is still expressed as an ai for infants. Most requirements are based on adequate growth and development of infants fed breast milk. Infants require 108 kcal/kg/d compared to adults, who require 30-35 kcal/kg/d. Recommended protein intake for 0-6 mo = 1. 52 g/kg/d compared to adults, who require 0. 8 g/kg/d. Two factors that affect the changing needs of an infant"s energy and protein needs per kilogram throughout the first year are: growth rate decreases and activity increases x. So, by 6 months of age, infant"s energy needs are now 98 kcal/kg/d (on average). Therefore, it is more appropriate to target a range of energy needs:_80-120 kcal/kg/d. Variation in energy need is due mainly to: differences in growth rate, differences in physical activity. But the protein dri (expressed in g/kg/d) changes only slightly during infancy:
