However, in the present study, no specific search was conducted for low versus high protein intake, and related RCTs for LE combined with high protein intake were lacking.
From the public health point of view, it is important to provide the lacking information about the intake of animal and plant protein, as well as about water intake in young children in Europe.
However, information on children's intake is lacking in evaluations of food subsidy programmes [ 5, 31].
However, research on the role of specific parenting techniques, such as positive parenting, monitoring, or corporal punishment in stress-induced food intake is lacking.
Food and drink is not easy to validate as good, easy-to-administer, self-reported measures of nutritional intake are lacking.
It is also important to provide the lacking information about the intake of animal protein, plant protein and water in young children.
It is a limitation of the current study that all blood parameters, including IGF-1, IGFBP3, glucose and insulin were determined in non-fasted samples collected at a random moment of the day and that data on insulin sensitivity and food intake were lacking.
First, although precise data on the caloric intakes are lacking for the first weeks of life, we didn't find accelerated growth and fat deposition to be associated with hyperphagia at four months of age, since calorie intakes measured in the bottle-fed infants are similar whether previous FGR or not.
Of the 11,746 subjects in the cohort, 352 (3.0%) subjects who were lacking information on dietary intakes were excluded from the current analysis.
Some dietary factors tended to behave in the opposite way (e.g. iron, carbohydrates), while sucrose and monosaccharide intake lacked influential (VIPs < 1.0) associations.
