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Prof Gary Butler explains the importance of monitoring growth in children

Prof Gary Butler, from the University College Hospital, discusses the importance of monitoring growth in children at the WALTHAM International Nutritional Science Symposium (WINSS) 2016. Prof Butler catches up with us after his plenary presentation (now available to watch at    • Promoting Healthy Growth in Children  ). Childhood growth is routinely assessed by comparison with growth standards. The science of growth, or auxology, is a relatively new one. After the First World War, the British government was dismayed at the health of potential recruits. The newly formed Medical Research Council was tasked to investigate the link between the environment, nutrition and a child’s health using height and weight as indices of wellbeing. The effect was very clear, and the need for good child nutrition and care became a public health matter. Measuring growth in childhood is a way to understand the wellbeing of an individual child and also the health of the population too. It is a new science, only having been developed over the past 100 years, but thanks to the folklore tradition of observing children grow, it provides us with perhaps the most valuable tool in nutrition and wellbeing. WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition has recently developed and launched Puppy Growth Charts for young dogs in the UK, find out more about the charts at https://www.waltham.com/resources/pup... or hear Dr Alex German share the science behind the charts at    • Promoting Healthy Growth in Pets