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Let us begin with a brief, selective bibliographic review. The recommendations for the anthropometric appraisal of nutritional status, formulated by the enlarged Committee on Nutrition1 Anthropometry, of the (U.S.) National Research Council, were published in 1956 in Human Biology1 and as an introduction to a volume entitled Body Measurements and the Evaluation of Nutritional Status.2
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Brožek, J. (1974). From a QUAC Stick to a Compositional Assessment of Man’s Nutritional Status. In: Roche, A.F., Falkner, F. (eds) Nutrition and Malnutrition. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 49. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3252-7_7
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