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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 29-844
Full Name: Cristina Petrescu
Position: Associate Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Intrarea Sabinei, 3A, 18, 300424, Timisoara
Country: ROMANIA
Tel: 740 825681
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Fax: 256 492101
E-mail address: cpetrescu64a@yahoo.com
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Title of the Paper: Development of Children Aged 1.5-3 Years in Relation with Nourishment in a Children's Nursery in Romania
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Cristina Petrescu, Laurentiu-Marius Zavoianu, Oana Suciu
Email addresses of all the authors: cpetrescu64a@yahoo.com, hazzard_dr@yahoo.com, oana_suciu96@yahoo.com
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Abstract: - In the present study we have investigated the anthropometrical indices (weight, height, thorax perimeter, cranial perimeter, body mass index) during infancy and their relation to nourishment (food intake, nutritive value of food). The study was performed on a group of 54 children (27 girls and 27 boys), aged between 1.5-3 years, in a children's nursery in Tîrgoviºte, Romania. The methods consisted of a transverse epidemiological inquiry using the anthropometrical indices of infant children and a nourishment inquiry, using the list of food released from the storehouse over 10 days, twice (in October 2008 and February 2009). WHO Child Growth Standards (Geneva 2006) were also used to analyze children's development. The relation anthropometrical indices – nourishment was investigated by aid of linear regression (SPSS 13 program). The anthropometrical indices indicate a decrease to below the minimum values for thorax perimeter and body mass index (BMI) in th!
e age group of 2.5-3 years. According to WHO Child Growth Standards (Geneva 2006), BMIs for age group 2.5-3 years are < 50 percentages for 11.1% of total investigated children and 42.18% of children included in this age group. There are not significant differences of anthropometrical indices between sexes. Nourishment of children is deficient in milk, eggs, animal fats, vegetables, and excessive in meat, cheese and vegetable fats, with normal intake of protein, deficient in carbohydrates and excessive in fats in both periods of the nourishment inquiry. In the second period of nourishment inquiry, food intake is very increased in potatoes, fruits and sugar. There is a statistically significant relation between milk and potatoes with BMI. Milk and potatoes are significant nourishment predictors of children development. Nourishment predictors of anthropometrical indices depend on groups of food, children's age and nourishment inquiry period. No predictor of cranial perimeter d!
evelopment is found. In conclusion, there is insubstantial association
anthropometrical indices–nourishment depending on children's age, group of food and season.
Keywords: Children aged 1-3 years, Anthropometrical indices, Group of food, Relation, Predictors
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