TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pospisil, Christina
A1  - Czernitzki, Anna-Franziska
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - No association between nutrition and body height in German kindergarten children
BT  - a pilot study
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Anthropologists all over the world are discussing influences on individual height including quantity and quality of nutrition. To examine whether a relationship between nutritional components and height can be found this pilot study has been developed. The research samples consisted of 44 children (age 3–6 years) attending two different kindergartens in Germany. Height measurements were taken for each child. Furthermore the parents had to fill out a 24-hour questionnaire to document their children’s eating habits during the weekend. In order to standardize the measured height values z-scores were calculated with reference to the average height of the overall cohort. The results of correlation analysis indicate that height is not significantly related to any of the main nutritional components as protein (r = –0.148), carbohydrates (r = 0.126), fat (r = 0.107), fibre (r = –0.289), vitamin (r = 0.050), calcium (r = 0.110), potassium (r = 0.189) and overall calorie intake (r = 0.302). In conclusion, it can be stated that the quality of nutrition may not have a strong influence on individual height. However, due to the small sample size further research should be provided with a larger cohort of children to verify the present results.
KW  - nutritional components
KW  - individual body height
KW  - children
KW  - Germany
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0704
SN  - 0003-5548
SN  - 2363-7099
VL  - 74
IS  - 3
SP  - 199
EP  - 202
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Czernitzki, Anna-Franziska
A1  - Pospisil, Christina
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Analysis of longitudinal data of height z-scores in kindergarten children
BT  - a pilot study
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Changes in body height throughout extended historic periods are very complex and dynamic processes. Thispilot study aimed to investigate the pattern of longitudinal height z-scores changes in children before and after entering kindergarten. In summer 2016, we measured height and weight of 32 children from 4 groups of two kindergartens aged 3–6 years. All ages were centered according to the age of entry into the kindergarten. For each child we determined mean z-scores for height before and after entering the kindergarten, and assessed the variances for each kindergarten group. Twenty-two children targeted in height z-scores towards average height of their respective kindergarten group, 10 children did not. Due to the small numbers, the convergence in height variance however, remained insignificant (chi-squared independence test, p = 0.127). Additional studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm this pilot study.
KW  - Height z-score
KW  - kindergarten children
KW  - secular trend
KW  - strategic growth adjustment
KW  - social signal
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0708
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 74
IS  - 2
SP  - 109
EP  - 112
PB  - Schweizerbart science publishers
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -