A recent clinical study found a positive effect of a nutritional supplement on growth and body composition in short and lean preadolescent boys aged 10 years old and up.
The text material, a new protein drink powder, demonstrated positive benefits for growth and development in boys 10 and older, according to a new clinical study published in the medical journal Acta Paediatrica.
The research is focused on “Grow Daily Boys 10+”, a nutrition supplement developed by Nutritional Growth Solutions.
The study
The 12-month, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study included 160 lean and short boys, and was carried out by the Institute for Endocrinology of the Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel and two other co-research centers in Israel.
The intervention included two stages: Stage 1 (months 0-6), a double-blinded intervention with nutritional formula or placebo (1:1) and Stage 2 (months 6-12), an open-label extension with the nutritional formula for all the participants.
Findings
The research found that pre-teen and teen boys who used the formula gained more fat-free mass and muscle mass.
“Intervention with a multi-nutrient, protein-rich formula was effective at increasing weight and body mass index (BMI), mostly from fat-free-mass and muscle mass, in short and lean prepubertal male adolescents,” explained lead researcher Michal Yackobovitch-Gavan, PhD, a dietitian and researcher at Schneider Children’s Medical Center. “It also prevented the expected slowdown in height growth in children older than 11.4 years. This is a key trial that evaluated the importance of nutrition for pre-adolescents and is certain to inspire more research.”