Insufficient amounts and inadequate distribution of dietary protein intake in apparently healthy older adults in a developing country: Implications for dietary strategies to prevent sarcopenia

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 8, Issue , 2013, Pages 1143-1148

  Ruiz Valenzuela, Roxana E ^a   Ponce, José A ^a   Morales Figueroa, Gloria Guadalupe ^a   Aguilar Muro, Karina ^a   Ramírez Carreón, Virginia ^a   Alemán Mateo, Heliodoro ^a  

^a Research Center for Food and Development   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Appendicular skeletal muscle mass; Dietary protein intake; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEAN; CALORIC INTAKE; CHEESE; CHICKEN; CORN TORTILLA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; EGG; FEMALE; FOOD; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAL; MEAT; MEAT FILLED TAMALE; MILK; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN INTAKE; SARCOPENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WHEAT TORTILLA;

APPENDICULAR SKELETAL MUSCLE MASS; DIETARY PROTEIN INTAKE; OLDER ADULTS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SARCOPENIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84884256818     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S49810     Document Type: Article

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