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Relative fat oxidation is higher in children than adults

BACKGROUND: Prepubescent children may oxidize fatty acids more readily than adults. Therefore, dietary fat needs would be higher for children compared with adults. The dietary fat recommendations are higher for children 4 to 18 yrs (i.e., 25 to 35% of energy) compared with adults (i.e., 20 to 35% of...

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Autores principales: Kostyak, John C, Kris-Etherton, Penny, Bagshaw, Deborah, DeLany, James P, Farrell, Peter A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2014754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17705825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-6-19