Meat Animals pp 285-299 | Cite as

The Nutritional Control of Growth

  • V. R. Fowler
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Abstract

The fact that nutrition is essential to sustained growth is self-evident since there can be no output from no input. It is evident too that differences in the composition of growth and in its efficiency arise from changes in nutritional status. The contrasts are most stark when expressed in terms of the human diseases of obesity, or, at the other extreme, marasmus and kwashiokor. To these can be added the deforming diseases of specific mineral or vitamin deficiencies such as rickets or cretinism. In animal production, the effects of nutrition tend to be measured in terms of their effect upon efficiency rather than on gross features of the animal but the impact of nutrition on composition is still of considerable importance particularly where animals are subjected to grading for fatness or leanness.

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Feed Intake High Protein Diet Lean Tissue Growth Check Essential Lipid 
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© Plenum Press, New York 1976

Authors and Affiliations

  • V. R. Fowler
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  1. 1.Rowett Research InstituteAberdeenScotland

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