Determine Protein requirements of school children and adolescents?
FAO/WHO/UIW (1985) recommends factorial method to compute their protein requirements. The factorial value is increased by 50% to obtain the physiological requirements for growth and further + 2SD (25%) has been added to give safe level of intake. These values are further corrected for NPU-65 for dietary proteins. Body weight of well -to-do Indian children has been used for computations.