Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 11 , Pages 1120-1128 , November 2009

High-protein diet promotes a moderate postpartum weight loss in a prospective cohort of Brazilian women

  • Maria Beatriz T. de Castro, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Gilberto Kac, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Nutrição Social e Aplicada, Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-21-2562-6595; fax: +55-21-2280-8343.
    • ,
  • Antonio P. de Leon, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Rosely Sichieri, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Epidemiologia, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Received 15 October 2008 ,Accepted 5 February 2009.

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 This project was funded by the Fundação Universitária José Bonifácio and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. M. B. T. Castro was supported by a fellowship from the Brazilian Coordination Body for the Training of University Level Personnel (CAPES). R. Sichieri, G. Kac, and A. P. de Leon received research productivity grants from CNPq.

PII: S0899-9007(09)00126-9

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.02.006

Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 11 , Pages 1120-1128 , November 2009

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