Boulton T J, Weinstein S
N Z Med J. 1978 Dec 27;88(626):489-91.
An anthropometric study was conducted on a sample of preschool children from Mangaia, Cook Islands, and a comparison made with similar measurements made on Caucasian children aged two and four years. At two years there were no differences in height, weight, or fatness as measured by skinfold thicknesses between the populations. By four years, the Mangaian children were shorter, lighter and fatter. It is proposed that this disparity in somatic growth is a result of subtle nutritional deficits in the Mangaian children.
对来自库克群岛曼加伊亚的学龄前儿童样本进行了人体测量研究，并与对两岁和四岁白人儿童进行的类似测量结果进行了比较。两岁时，不同人群在身高、体重或通过皮褶厚度测量的肥胖程度方面没有差异。到四岁时，曼加伊亚儿童更矮、更轻且更胖。有人提出，这种身体生长方面的差异是曼加伊亚儿童存在细微营养缺乏的结果。
