Human Body Composition During Riboflavin Depletion of Brief But Sufficient Duration to Produce Biochemical Evidence of Deficiency.
Abstract
After 2 weeks on a control diet, 6 subjects were deprived of riboflavin for 9 weeks. Half of the subjects received 60g of protein daily. The protein increase was calorically at the expense of carbohydrate. Mean body weight decreased 0.95 kg. The densitometric data showed no significant changes to have occurred in body compartments. Potassium-40 counting approximated the densitometric lost in the dry protein mass after the third and sixth week of deprivation, but probably over-estimated the dry protein loss at the ninth week of the study. The significant change in total body potassium and dry protein loss calculated from whole-body 40K counting may have been an artifact. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA072953
Entities
People
- Harry J. Krzywicki
- Herman L. Johnson
- Jerry A. Tillotson