Nutrition for infants, children, and adolescents should weight maintain current and support normal growth and development. Growth during in fane ’ rapid, critical for neurocognitive development, and has the highest energ^ a d nutrient requirements relative to body size than any other period of growth It" followed by growth during childhood, when 60% o f total growth occurs, and finally by puberty- Nutrition and growth during the 1st 3 yr o f life predict adult stature and some health outcomes. The major risk period for growth stunting (impaired linear growth) is between 4 and 24 mo of age. Therefore, it is critical to identify nutrient deficiencies promptly and to address them aggressively early in life, because missing them can impart lasting adverse effects on later growih and development
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